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Dire Straights

Tracy Clark-Flory & Amanda Montei

A feminist podcast critiquing heterosexual love, sex, politics, and culture. www.direstraightspod.com

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37 episodes

  1. The trouble with #GirlDads 52:31
  2. Are monsters better than monstrous men? 53:23
  3. Talking with boys about consent is not enough 2:33
  4. Cornell reminds us that the root of women’s heteropessimism is fear 53:44
  5. AI can't fix straight men 58:32
  6. Feminist dating strategies 57:52
  7. Getting on the apps as a woman in midlife 1:08
  8. Are feminists "anti-family"? 57:08
  9. The sexual awakening that ends a marriage 24:59
  10. They sent my mom away to become a good wife 1:01:28
  11. Why is feminism being blamed for everything? 32:14
  12. Jeffrey Epstein, Les Wexner, and the 90s mall 1:20:15
  13. The anti-feminist conspiracy to make women need men 22:17
  14. The definitive feminist history of the wine mom 1:13:20
  15. The Hetero State of the Union 20:00
  16. Is porn a scapegoat for patriarchy? 21:58
  17. Epstein was behind the #MeToo backlash 24:59
  18. Men need therapy. They also need feminism. 1:15:50
  19. The hetero-politics of ICE 20:00
  20. Monogamy is a feminist problem 26:53
  21. Is ‘Heated Rivalry' an escape from heterosexuality? 18:31
  22. Is dating dead? 1:21:19
  23. Can married and divorced women be friends? 27:01
  24. Christmas is an ad for heterosexuality 1:36:45
  25. Is it women’s job to save men? 34:39
  26. A feminist takedown of WWE masculinity 1:19:18
  27. Marital 'intimacy' is the fifth shift of women's work 31:17
  28. What happened to 4B? 1:11:16
  29. Have we lost the divorce plot? 32:38
  30. 'Red flags' are the state of dating right now 1:20:58
  31. We got AI boyfriends 25:10
  32. ‘Why am I in this relationship?’ 1:14:48
  33. S*x guides for tradwives 32:57
  34. The heteropessimism of techno-optimism 57:59
  35. What is couples therapy for? 33:54
  36. 'Dark feminine' influencers are selling seduction as liberation 52:45
  37. Introducing Dire Straights 1:47