Diabolical Lies

Dec 29 2024 12 ep. 78 mins 131
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How "Reactionary Feminism" Infiltrated the Mainstream

Dec 29 2024 142 mins  
Feminism is in the midst of an identity crisis: What is feminism? What does it mean to “be a feminist”? The gap has created an opening for a few media-savvy writers and thinkers to refashion the movement in their own image: a “women’s rights” movement that uses anti-capitalist language to make things like unprotected sex and unpaid labor look like liberation.For notes, ci

Evie Magazine, Ballerina Farm, & the Yassification of Christian Nationalism

Dec 15 2024 44 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit diabolicallies.substack.comIn this conversation...Evie Magazine bills itself as a “Cosmopolitan for conservatives,” but is that the best description for this editorial mission? Spoiler alert: No! Today’s sprawling conversation explores every nook and cranny of this dumpster fire of a “media company,” as well as

"The Men Are Not All Right"...Right?

Dec 01 2024 101 mins  
In this conversation…Caro & Katie dive headfirst into the “male loneliness epidemic,” “the boys are not all right,” “feminism hurts men” discourse to understand which right-wing think tank’s research suddenly indicates The Men™️ are struggling, its curious timing, and the frustrating tendency of all the coverage to completely gloss over the core problem.Referenc

What a Viral Tradwife Rant Reveals About Gen Z's Alt-Right

Nov 17 2024 30 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit diabolicallies.substack.comIn this conversation…Caro & Katie engage in a close read of the viral Free Press debate TikTok that stars a young woman angry she can’t live on a homestead, and accidentally discover it’s uniquely emblematic of the sort of right-wing radicalization we’re witnessing en masse in the Unite

Abortion: Say It With Your Chest

Nov 03 2024 97 mins  
In this conversation…Caro & Katie talk about abortion in America, starting with leaders in the evangelical church recognizing it as a political tool in the 1970s with which to gain power in the face of unwanted desegregation, to the profound discomfort that modern politicians across the spectrum express about the subject—that is, until maybe, right now. It turns out that Americ

The Liberal-to-Brave-Independent-Thinker™ Pipeline

Oct 20 2024 39 mins  
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit diabolicallies.substack.comOur first bonus episode! The first 40 minutes of this conversation are available to everyone, but if you'd like to become a subscriber, join us on Substack or Apple Podcasts.In this conversation…A critique of work that best illustrates different elements of the, “I used to be a liberal, but

The *Real* Reason Republicans Are Desperate to Impregnate You

Oct 06 2024 91 mins  
In this conversation…Two pre-menopausal females break down the replacement theory panic disguised as Reasonable! Political! Concern! and why it’s completely unnecessary and counterproductive to entertain the pronatalist conversation on their terms: that is, litigating the validity of having (or not having) children. It is not, and has never been, about the kids. Bonus ReadingTh

Taylor Swift, Injectables, and Other Genres of Magical Thinking

Sep 22 2024 86 mins  
In this conversation…The picture heard ‘round the Reddit Popular page has reignited the internet’s favorite form of is-that-misogyny? debate: Ladies, are we allowed to talk about what may or may not be happening on Taylor Swift’s face? Plastic surgery speculation is an online sport in its own right, but the real story is what it tells us about our culture’s attitude towar

Blake Lively is Content

Sep 08 2024 88 mins  
What began as a debrief about the ongoing, deeply ridiculous moral panic surrounding a number of celebrities this summer morphed into an expansive discussion about the truth of “celebrity,” what it means to be famous, how we distinguish content from art, and why the context-collapse of algorithms is wreaking so much havoc on our brains.Bonus Reading“Why Is Everyone Mad at Bla

Bama Rush Post-Mortem: Patriarchy Rocks, Dude

Aug 18 2024 91 mins  
in this episode: caro & katie debrief on the bama rush / rushtok phenomenon, through the lens of katie's experience going through alabama rush 10 years ago and the deconstruction process that followed. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit diabolicallies.substack.com/subscribe