Stay ConnectedRehash: The podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten – but we think are due for a revisiting.
Hosted by Maia (Broey Deschanel) and Hannah Raine
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Exciting, but not surprising. Caroline Calloway, self-proclaimed “scammer” and queen of name-searching, reached out to promote her book on the pod. In this special interview, Hannah and Maia discuss the long-awaited memoir, Scammer, with the author herself (who characteristically conducted the interview from her luxurious Floridian bed). Discussions include: the ethics of writing about other people’s traumas, undervaluing art made on social media, and the Dimes Square Image Rehabilitation Centre™. Digressions include: Tile Tequila and the nightmare that was being bi in the 2000s, coining the term “trad book”, and Caroline’s official inauguration as “schemer, not scammer.”
Do androids dream of writing Succession? In the second part of this two-part special, Hannah and Maia discuss the 2023 Writers Strike - a hotly debated labour dispute between the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) and The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). Robots may not want to turn you into a paperclip (yet), but they do want to turn you into a gig worker. Creative industries were the last place we thought this would happen... until generative AI came about. Although, is generative AI really to blame, or is it the greedy f*ckers in too-big suits dictating the future of art? Listen for a comprehensive breakdown of the strike, a chat about the precedent it will set for our job market, and lastly a theatrical reading of an AI-generated screenplay about three people who are bored. We must ask - does it compute?
What the hell is ChatGPT, and why are these pasty nerds telling us it's going to save the world? Hannah and Maia bring you a special, pre-season episode with a discussion of this new AI technology and what it means for the future of our world. The democratization of this smooth-talking chatbot means even YOU can bully a robot into doing your homework. But does democracy really mean that everyone has a grubby finger in the proverbial tech pie, or has humanity begun to miss the point a bit? What is the point anyways? Well Hannah and Maia are here to tell you, so put on your tin hats, sound the Luddite alarm, and get in your bunkers for a very spicy episode.
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SOURCES:
Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” The New Yorker (2023).
--- “Will A.I Become the New McKinsey?” The New Yorker (2023).
Amitai and Oren Etzioni, “Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated?” Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2017).
Mehmet Firat, “How Chat GPT Can Transform Autodidactic Experiences and Open Education?” University of Anadolou (2023).
Erin Griffith, “Reid Hoffman Is on a Mission: To Show A.I. Can Improve Humanity” The New York Times (2023).
David McCabe, “White House Pushes Tech C.E.O.s to Limit Risks of A.I.” The New York Times (2023).
Cade Metz, “OpenAI Plans to Up the Ante in Tech’s A.I. Race” The New York Times (2023).
--- “‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead” The New York Times (2023).
--- “With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain” The New York Times (2019).
Tobias Res, “Non-Human Words” Daedalus (2022).
Welcome to the season 2 finale! This season has been all about words entering a dark tunnel and coming out on the other end looking completely different. And nothing better encapsulates that than "groomer". As a word that defines a process rather than an outcome, this one is notoriously hard to pin down. It occupies a legal and colloquial grey area which leaves it dangerously vulnerable to misuse. "Groomer" was invented to protect children from abuse but, as so often the case with misused terminology, marginalized people have been harmed as a result (and even children themselves). This episode covers delicate subject matter - please listen at your own discretion.
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SOURCES:
EJ Dickson, “The Problem With How We Talk About Grooming” Rolling Stone (2021).
“Grooming: Know the Warning Signs” RAINN (2020).
https://www.rainn.org/news/grooming-know-warning-signs
Genyue Fu and Kang Lee, “Social grooming in the kindergarten: the emergence of flattery behavior” Developmental Science, Vol. 10 (2) (2007).
David J. Ley, “Misuse and Abuse of the Term Grooming Hurts Victims” Psychology Today (2022).
“Understanding Sexual Grooming in Child Abuse Cases”, American Bar Association (ABA).
Ann Wolbert Burgess and Carol R. Hartman, “On the Origin of Grooming” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 33(1) (2018).
https://calio.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/on-the-origin-of-grooming.pdf
2001. Coercion and Enticement (18 U.S.C. 2422). The United States Department of Justice Archives.
She's rude. She's got a bad haircut. And she will, indeed, be speaking to your manager. We've finally arrived at everyone's favourite pejorative, "Karen". The most contemptible lady in America today, Karen has had a bit of a reverse trajectory in popular culture. Hannah and Maia discuss the dual role that Karen occupies on our feeds, from the "can I speak to your manager" meme to her more insidious form as a 'Miss Ann', and the throughline of entitlement that runs between them. To what degree can we critique elements of ageism/misogyny embedded in the Karen meme, while unpacking the very devastating consequences that "white women tears" have had, both historically and imminently, on BIPOC living in the United States? It's time to rehash.
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SOURCES:
Henry Goldblatt, “A Brief History of ‘Karen’” (2020), The New York Times
Evan Nicole Brown, “Will It Take a Clever Acronym to Stop Racially Motivated 911 Calls?” (2020), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/briefing/caren-act-911-san-francisco.html
Robin Queen, “How ‘Karen’ went from a popular baby name to a stand-in for white entitlement” (2020), The Conversation https://theconversation.com/how-karen-went-from-a-popular-baby-name-to-a-stand-in-for-white-entitlement-139644
Hadley Freeman, “The ‘Karen’ meme is everywhere - and it has become mired in sexism” (2020), The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/apr/13/the-karen-meme-is-everywhere-and-it-has-become-mired-in-sexism
Aja Romano, “Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained”, (2020), Vox https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21079162/karen-name-insult-meme-manager
“What’s In A ‘Karen’?, (2020) Code Switch https://www.npr.org/transcripts/891177904
Aja Romano “How ‘Karen’ became a symbol of racism”, (2020) Vox https://www.vox.com/21317728/karen-meaning-meme-racist-coronavirus
“The Murder of Emmett Till”, PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/till-timeline/
Not quite an incel, not yet a Chad. The gymcel is a little-known, but hugely polarizing figure. Rather than swallowing the black pill and turning away from society (one where evil feminists govern man's ability to get laid), the gymcel takes matters into his own hands and get gains in pursuit of the ultimate Chad-bod. After all, everyone struggles with body image from time to time. So why do women hate him? Or, better yet, why do incels hate him? Hannah and Maia discuss the gymcel and his peculiar role in the ever-expanding Manosphere, giving you a thorough breakdown of all the incel terminology we're sure you've been dying to learn ("looksmaxxing"... "manlets"... "fapstinence"...). Is a figure associated with the worst subsects of the internet worthy of our sympathy? Could the gymcel be more benign than he seems?
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SOURCES:
Sara Brzuszkiewicz, “Incel Radical Milieu and External Locus of Control” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (2020).
Maddalena Cannito and Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, “The Rules of Attraction: An Empirical Critique of Pseudoscientific Theories about Sex in the Manosphere” Sexes Vol. 3 (4).
Hussein Kesvani, ““The Latest Manosphere Subculture is the ‘Gymcel’” Mel Magazine (2019).
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-latest-manosphere-subculture-is-the-gymcel
Brian Van Brunt and Chris Taylor, Understanding and Treating Incels: Case Studies, Guidance, and Treatment of Violence Risk in the Involuntary Celibate Community, Routledge (2020).
He's hot. He's dumb. He's also a feminist ally. Househusband. Beef pillow. White knight. Clinically depressed golden retriever. And climate activist. Truly, what the f*** is a himbo? Is he a person who pops up in our everyday lives? Or is he just a misguided coping mechanism because women are (1) h*rny, and (2) feel let down by the real men around them? Hannah and Maia discuss the Himbo, his evolution from Himbo-Erectus™ to Himbo-Sapien™, and whether or not, like Maia's imaginary middle school boyfriend Derek, we'll grow out of him one day.
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SOURCES:
Lauren Bans “Bimbo with Balls! The Rise of the Himbo” (2012), GQ https://www.gq.com/story/himbos-dumb-muscle-movie-characters-actors-magic-mike
Rita Kempley “THE HIMBO ALL POWERFUL AND ALL BEEF! IT’S THE REEL MEN!!!”, (1988) The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/06/17/the-himbo-all-powerful-and-all-beef-its-the-reel-men/5171832b-d84e-4fd2-b15b-00e32d5603b6/
“GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE A TREE-SWINGING BRENDAN FRASER ENJOYED PUN AND GAMES OF MAKING NEW DISNEY FILM” (1997), The Morning Call, https://www.mcall.com/1997/07/18/george-george-george-of-the-jungle-a-tree-swinging-brendan-fraser-enjoyed-pun-and-games-of-making-new-disney-film/
Chris Heath “The Quiet Man: The Riddle of Keanu Reeves” (2000), Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/the-quiet-man-the-riddle-of-keanu-reeves-97442/
Nathan Ma, “Let’s be real, who doesn’t love a himbo?” (2020), i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/8895az/himbo-and-modern-masculinity
Patrick Schuckmann “Masculinity, the Male Spectator and the Homoerotic Gaze” (1998) Amerikastudien/American Studies
Marlowe Granados, “The Bimbo’s Laugh: An Old Hollywood stereotype makes a comeback.” (2021) The Baffler https://www.jstor.org/stable/27087342?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Justin Myers “Being a himbo is no bad thing. Here’s why” (2020) GQ https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/himbo-meaning
Drew Ayers “Bodies, Bullets, and Bad Guys: Elements of the Hardbody Film” (2008), Film criticism
“Himbos” Know Your Meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/himbo
No offence but... women are too much drama. No but seriously, we're living in a time of 'pick me' inception. Pick me's are calling other women pick me's, in response those women become pick me's and call the pick me's pick me's, and now nobody can decipher who the real pick me is. Hannah and Maia try and get to the bottom of this conundrum. Has the 'pick me' always been around or did early 2000s chick flicks do such a number on us that now we have no choice but to clap back? Or maybe this is just a case of good ole' psychological oppression.
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SOURCES:
Sandra Lee Bartky, “On Psychological Oppression” Femininity and Domination (1990).
Bearman et al. “The Fabric of Internalized Sexism” Journal of Integrated Social Sciences vol. 1 (1) (2009).
Sarah Eckert, “There's a Big Issue Surrounding Those #PickMeGirl TikToks & We Need to Talk About It.” Her Campus (2021).
https://www.hercampus.com/culture/tiktok-pick-me-girl-trend-toxic/
Courtney Young, Why TikTok Is Flooded With Controversial Videos About "Pick Me Girls" Bustle (2022).
https://www.bustle.com/life/what-is-a-pick-me-girl-definition-traits
You wanna be on top? Well then girl, go do some exploitation! Hannah and Maia discuss the once revered, now maligned figure of the Girlboss™. Where did she come from? How did she get here? And why does she keep telling us to wash our face? We think sometimes you have to stop and consider, maybe becoming the #1 event planner in your state doesn't make you Malala. Join us for an unpacking of the She-EO, the world's fastest crash course on women in the workplace, Hannah's arduous journey towards building her bed, and whether or not we should put the "C" word on a t-shirt (we should).
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SOURCES:
Isabel Sloan, “How Girlboss Became a Slur”, Early Magazine (2021) https://www.earlymagazine.com/articles/how-girlboss-became-a-slur
“Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss”, Know Your Meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss
Alex Abad-Santos, “The death of the girlboss”, Vox (2021) https://www.vox.com/22466574/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss-meaning
Sophia Amoruso, “#GIRLBOSS”, (2014), Penguin Publishing Group
Rachel Hollis, “Girl, Stop Apologizing” (2019), Harper Collins
Constance Grady, “Why The Author of Girl, Stop Apologizing had to Apologize Twice in One Week” (2021), Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/22373865/rachel-hollis-controversy-harriet-tubman-girl-wash-your-face-stop-apologizing-unrelatable
Hannah Ewens, “The Girlboss Has Evolved into an Even More Powerful Form” (2019), Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywy7gj/girlboss-women-entrepreneurs-feminism-capitalism-class-irony
Emily Yellin, “Lining up for Wartime Weddings” (2017), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/weddings/165-years-of-wedding-announcements/world-war-two-weddings
Erin Gloria Ryan, “The Short List: Women at Work” (2014), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/sophia-amorusos-girlboss-and-more.html
It's time to talk about the most misunderstood word in the Tiktok lexicon :( gatekeeping! Hannah and Maia dive into the history of the word, its sinister origins and the way it now bursts out of our mouths every time someone doesn't give us what we want, the moment we want it. Join us and extra special guest Rayne as we digress about the death of subcultures, the Supreme™ brick, the bouncer at Berghain, and the ever-overlooked qu∊∊f community!
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SOURCES:
Sirena Bergman, “The internet really hates 'gatekeeping,' social media's new go-to insult. The truth is you're probably a gatekeeper, too.” Insider (2022).
Kurt Lewin, “Frontiers in Group Dynamics: Channels of Group Life; Social Planning and Action Research” Human Relations, Vol. 1 (2) (1947).
Pamela J. Shoemaker, Gatekeeping Theory, Taylor & Francis (2009).
Courtney Young, “What Does “Gatekeeping” Mean On TikTok? The Viral Term, Explained.” Bustle (2022).
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