In this Patreon-exclusive episode, Talia and Emma discuss Gloria Steinem: her legacy, her place in the feminist movement, and her writings. They ask what it means to honestly reckon with feminism's history of transphobia and exclusion, as typified by Gloria Steinem's infamous essay "Transsexualism".

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oh shit oh boy

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Out early on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Susan Faludi's "Backlash", a book on epistemic vandalism that catalogs how conservative and anti-feminist agendas are favored in media and culture. Finally, a good text that analyses societal misogyny and doesn't try to center men in feminism! ...Right?

Free version just dropped~ IDK why so many women feel the need to apologize for men. This isn't court and you're but their lawyer.

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Out early on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Susan Faludi's "Backlash", a book on epistemic vandalism that catalogs how conservative and anti-feminist agendas are favored in media and culture. Finally, a good text that analyses societal misogyny and doesn't try to center men in feminism! ...Right?

Why do people keep inventing AGP from first principles

Pega-ace🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸@pega-ace.bsky.social · 3w ago

Published 1996 btw :') @crackedivorypod.bsky.social gonna be carrying me thru the rest of my masters...

That's not tr...*looks at my listen history: @odiumsymposium.bsky.social @crackedivorypod.bsky.social @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social * ...uh ok disc horse you got me but that's good actually

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Podcasting is misandry but we're not ready for that conversation.

At least we're almost out of the abyss-that-gazes-back that is 90's feminism

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Out early on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Susan Faludi's "Backlash", a book on epistemic vandalism that catalogs how conservative and anti-feminist agendas are favored in media and culture. Finally, a good text that analyses societal misogyny and doesn't try to center men in feminism! ...Right?

Surely this one won't be cringe. Surely.

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 4w ago

Out early on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Susan Faludi's "Backlash", a book on epistemic vandalism that catalogs how conservative and anti-feminist agendas are favored in media and culture. Finally, a good text that analyses societal misogyny and doesn't try to center men in feminism! ...Right?

Been listening to @crackedivorypod.bsky.social and it’s given me a whole new perspective.

Out early on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Susan Faludi's "Backlash", a book on epistemic vandalism that catalogs how conservative and anti-feminist agendas are favored in media and culture. Finally, a good text that analyses societal misogyny and doesn't try to center men in feminism! ...Right?

S2 E5: The Eternal Backlash. Susan Faludi's "Backlash" | Cracked Ivory

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thank god for this episode bc i no longer feel obligated to finish this damn book lmao

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · last mo.

Our discussion of bell hooks' "The Will to Change" is also out now, wherever you listen to podcasts! Join Emma and Talia's retrospective on one of the most oft-recommended feminist books and why its popularity may be out of step with its actual message.

i got a few chapters in and it just wasn't hitting, so it's good to know it stays Like That forever i was hoping for an insightful letter TO MEN about unlearning patriarchy, but it's to women ABOUT men, instructing us to be tolerant enough of abuse that men no longer feel the urge to abuse us :/

i think she has some interesting things to say, but it just doesn't feel like she LOVES women, or even particularly cares about the wellbeing of noncismen she loves MEN, and wants to find a way to convince/teach them how to love HER, specifically

random thought while listening to cracked ivory and thinking about my own work on the ambivalent, ambiguous, androgynous, both-and neither-nor gendered status of the "figure of The Boy"

it's a good episode bsky.app/profile/crac...

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · last mo.

Our discussion of bell hooks' "The Will to Change" is also out now, wherever you listen to podcasts! Join Emma and Talia's retrospective on one of the most oft-recommended feminist books and why its popularity may be out of step with its actual message.

im half an hour into this and it's amazing how it's basically just the repper manifesto

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · last mo.

The companion episode to our discussion of "The Will to Change" is now out on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Jacob Tobia's "Before They Were Men", an autopsy on 2010s-era trans activism that effectively demonstrates the moral cowardice of Western trans liberals and their politics of appeasement.

i upped my subscriber level for this and the prev bonus episode and it was soooooo worth it

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · last mo.

The companion episode to our discussion of "The Will to Change" is now out on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Jacob Tobia's "Before They Were Men", an autopsy on 2010s-era trans activism that effectively demonstrates the moral cowardice of Western trans liberals and their politics of appeasement.

Conveniently like the day after I listened to this someone recommended reading The Will to Change in a group I'm in. Anyway looking forward to the day I turn on this podcast and it's just an hour of Talia and Emma screaming.

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Will to Change" is often recommended as a text that addresses men's concerns in feminist movements and elucidates how men benefit from participation in feminism. But is that actually the case? Emma and Talia discuss the text, and whether anyone reads the works they recommend!

Ein verdient brutaler Take Down für den Klassiker der „Männer die das lesen sind die Guten“-Literatur. Dabei zeigt die Analyse direkt: hooks schreibt gar nicht an Männer, sondern an Feministinnen, denen sie konstant vorwirft, sich nicht genug um Männer zu kümmern

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Will to Change" is often recommended as a text that addresses men's concerns in feminist movements and elucidates how men benefit from participation in feminism. But is that actually the case? Emma and Talia discuss the text, and whether anyone reads the works they recommend!

Dabei kommt es nicht nur zu den erwartbaren Verschiebungen von Fokus und Verantwortlichkeit sondern zu ziemlich bizarren Quasi-Eso-Kategorien die hooks einführen muss um „Feministsiche Männlichkeit“ als Männlichkeit zu retten obwohl sie genau so wie feministische Weiblichkeit sein soll

Warum das Buch bei Kritischen Männern so bleibt ist, ist aber kein Geheimnis: Die Message ist durchgehend, dass Männer Herrschaft aus Defiziten und „Gehirnwäsche“ ausüben und erst alle (inklusive Frauen/Feministinnen) sich um ihre Verletztheit kümmern müssen um das zu ändern

this is why I say the comphet essay is one of the most important feminist writings bc she gets away from this fixation on the desire to be close to men and rather points out how material factors coerce you into being unable to say no to them, even the nice ones

similarly it also doesn't matter if some men are wonderful husbands and fathers. what happens to the family if he gets a TBI that completely changes his personality or he loses his job or fucking dies? stupid stupid stupid

a man being mean to women wouldn't really mean jack shit if he was in no position to hold his wife and children hostage you get me. hooks mentions abusive mothers as like a ding against radical feminist theory and I'm just like oh no! you forgot about youth oppression and why that happens!!!

when you think patriarchy is men being mean to women then it's extremely easy to "debunk" it bc some men are nice and it feminism becomes this touchy feely forgive your abusers slop vs acknowledging that abuse is enabled via power dynamics that privilege the patriarch

I'm halfway through this rn and firstly Emma you are so brave but secondly I am once again saying I'm so fucking over ppl framing patriarchy as men being mean to women and ignoring the goddamn material analysis of it bc that's what fucking matters

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Will to Change" is often recommended as a text that addresses men's concerns in feminist movements and elucidates how men benefit from participation in feminism. But is that actually the case? Emma and Talia discuss the text, and whether anyone reads the works they recommend!

Oh god, you know how Joh* B*yne gives out about trans people being men's rights activists, this is what Tobia is. They are literally a TERF idea of trans activism.

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · last mo.

The companion episode to our discussion of "The Will to Change" is now out on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Jacob Tobia's "Before They Were Men", an autopsy on 2010s-era trans activism that effectively demonstrates the moral cowardice of Western trans liberals and their politics of appeasement.

This episode was really good and voiced a lot of frustrations that I have I appreciate it a lot

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · last mo.

Our discussion of bell hooks' "The Will to Change" is also out now, wherever you listen to podcasts! Join Emma and Talia's retrospective on one of the most oft-recommended feminist books and why its popularity may be out of step with its actual message.

There's a chance that people might consider some of the things I say here to be excessively vicious. I want to emphasize that I consider the politics espoused to be so self-defeating, utterly without merit, and yet so ubiquitous and constantly reiterated that I have to repudiate them harshly.

Cracked Ivory@crackedivorypod.bsky.social · last mo.

The companion episode to our discussion of "The Will to Change" is now out on Patreon! Talia and Emma discuss Jacob Tobia's "Before They Were Men", an autopsy on 2010s-era trans activism that effectively demonstrates the moral cowardice of Western trans liberals and their politics of appeasement.