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RedFem
by Hannah & Jen
A post-liberal podcast with analysis of politics and pop culture through a psychoanalytic lens and continental philosophy.
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Episode 146: On Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem, a key figure of the feminist second-wave, died last month. We are joined by Australian academic and feminist philosopher Kate Phelan to discuss Steinem's work and whether she had a moderating, liberalising effect on the women’s movement. Plus, menstrual leave, hobosexuals…
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Episode 145: Could the Trans Pendulum Swing Back?
We discuss whether the defeat of transgenderism in the UK could be reversed? Specifically under our incoming new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is to the left of Keir Starmer. How are sexual politics going to fit in to Burnham’s Britain? Will the new Burnham regime embolden the possibility of...
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Episode 144: Tickle vs. Giggle Round Two
We discuss the recent outcome and wider context of the pivotal Australian legal case Tickle vs. Giggle. Its specifics involve a bloke joining a female-only app, but the case has all encompassing consequences for how single-sex law is interpreted and applied in Australia. With examples from court,...
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Episode 143: The Labour Party in Crisis
The Labour Party is in termoil and Keir Starmer is hanging on for dear life as PM. We discuss who the next leader will be, the Mandelson scandal taking more scalps, Stella Creasy dancing while Rome burns, the parliamentary Labour party’s ‘chumocracy’ of former third sector wonks, and why Reform...
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Episode 142: Do Men Need Their Own Spaces?
We discuss whether men should be entitled to their own single-sex spaces using the example of Men in Sheds, a club set up specifically for men that has recently been infiltrated by their wives and female partners. We also consider why exceptions to the rule should never guide policy, the reasons...
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Episode 141: Transgender Perversion
We discuss why men who claim to be women by identifying as transgender are almost all exclusively perverts. Using Lacan’s concept of perversion and what perversity of mind entails we link fetishism, sexual offending, and the need for others to collude in ‘disavowing’ the rules of reality....
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Episode 140: The Killing of Noelia Castillo
Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old Spanish woman, was killed by euthanasia on March 26th in Barcelona. Her case gained worldwide prominence due to Noelia’s status as the first person granted to die of euthanasia in Spain due to mental health issues. We discuss the case, euthanasia’s knock on effects…
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Episode 139: The New Unpopularity of Transgenderism
Transgenderism is in rapid decline across the UK and U.S., demonstrating it always was a social trend and without institutional backing would fold. We discuss how in contrast homosexuality is not a trend, is transhistorical, and not geographically contingent. Plus, Trans YouTubers views falling…
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Episode 138: The War on Iran
We discuss the recent war on Iran launched by America and Israel, focusing on why regime change in the Middle East through interventionism has no precedent of success. Whatever happened to Trump's sentiment of America First? And what will the impact on our economies be? Plus, liberal democracy,...
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Episode 137: The Green Party Would Have Us Live In Hell
We discuss the Green Party's by-election victory in Manchester last week, how the Greens marry support for Islam with support for woke transgender politics, and why they’re likely to be the opposition government at the next General Election. Plus, the new political reality of sectarian voting…
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Episode 136: Is Looksmaxxing Spiking Our Cortisol? Clavicular, Transhumanism, and Love
We discuss the online live streaming phenom that is Clavicular and looksmaxxing as a feminisation of a masculine dynamic. Looksmaxxing's technologisation of the body is now firmly part of the transhumanist and posthumanist universe, as Peter Thiel's affinity with Clavicular (Braden Peters)...
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Episode 135: On Transgender Mass Shootings
Within the last fortnight two transgender males have committed mass shootings and family annihilation. We discuss the harms caused to families by transgenderism, the need to bring back the category of the ‘pervert’, and why transgenderism necessarily indicates an unstable personality. Today,...
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Episode 134: The Epstein Files Fallout
The release of roughly half of the Epstein files last week is causing enormous political turmoil both within and beyond the United States. We discuss the fallout and how the files show who the ‘deplorables’ really are and how our world elite who position themselves as humanitarians are anything...
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Episode 133: The Darlington Nurses Victory and Jennifer Melle
Last week eight Darlington nurses won their employment tribunal against their NHS Trust over a male colleague being allowed to use the women's changing room at work. The court found this constituted harassment on the basis of sex and created a hostile, humiliating, intimidating, and degrading...
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Episode 132: The New Political Poles Replacing Left and Right
Since 2020 there has been a sizeable reconfiguration of political lines, with new poles shaping up to replace left and right. Specifically, differing strains of a kind of conservative nationalism replacing the traditional right and liberalised globalism replacing the traditional left. We discuss...
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Episode 131: Review of Sean Combs: The Reckoning
The new Netflix documentary 'Sean Combs: The Reckoning' profiling rapper, producer, and now convict P Diddy, has set the internet alight. We review the documentary, focusing on its themes of sexual violence and psychological control, behaviour that P Diddy got away with across four decades. We…
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Episode 130: A Review of Your Party's First Conference
Last weekend new leftwing UK party officially now called ‘Your Party’ held their first conference showcasing a bonanza of debilitating leftist tendencies. We discuss those and wider bonkers trends on the left. Including, obsessional lunacy with accessibility that is actually a tool of…
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Episode 129: Your Party UK and the Contemporary Left
New UK leftist political group 'Your Party' is to hold its first national conference this weekend. We discuss this latest attempt to marry the Muslim community with the left, the resignation of Adnan Hussain MP from Your Party, and its ongoing split over transgenderism. We also talk more widely...
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Episode 128: Open Relations (pop culture episode / Lily Allen)
Lily Allen's latest album details her husband's infidelity after initiating an open relationship. We discuss the unviability of open relationships, the risks of public confessionalism as therapeutic, the pernicious valorisation of the concept of consent beyond sex, and how people are hacking…
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Episode 127: The Collapse of the Grooming Gang Enquiry
Last week saw the collapse of the Labour government's enquiry into the grooming gangs as both candidates for chair resigned and several survivors walked away demanding Jess Phillips' resignation. We discuss how the grooming gangs pose an irreconcilable intersectional car crash for Labour and the...
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Episode 126: WTF Is Happening in the UK?!
This episode focuses on the political climate in the UK via topics including Graham Linehan’s armed arrest compared to actions police take against rapists, how Labour’s crack down on social media leads back to embarrassment over the grooming gangs, and digital ID. Plus, Matt Taibbi’s book 'I…
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Episode 125: On Erika Kirk
We review the Charlie Kirk memorial and discuss how Erika Kirk has been receiving the Amber Heard treatment online. Also, why women who refuse to be victims are often hated the most and women as symbols of cultural meaning. Plus, American evangelicalism, 'over performing' during times of grief…
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Episode 124: The Murder of Charlie Kirk
We discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk, how transgender rights activism was a primary motivation of his killer, why the dehumanisation of political opponents has become the domain the political left operates from, and how subsequently it means Trump's decision to classify Antifa as a terrorist...
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Episode 123: The Failed Diddy Trial and Missing Epstein Files
The last fortnight has seen the failure of the high-profile trial of rapper P Diddy for sex trafficking and the Epstein files not released after months of promise they would be by the Trump administration. Could the American elites really be willing to embarrass themselves to this degree without...
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Episode 122: The Fall of Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson appears of late to be a shadow of the man he once was, specifically in relation to the masculine strongman who took on C16 in Canada during the late 2010s. Peterson is in an odd position as a conservative figure, yet blatantly a radical subjectivist, leading him into the peculiar...
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Episode 121: The Darlington Nurses
We discuss the Darlington nurses' fight to secure a female-only changing room at work and how their hospital is refusing to implement it, despite the Supreme Court victory and supportive intervention by Minister for Health, Wes Streeting. Plus, the suffragettes, gay male culture, the ‘transman’…
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Episode 120: Political Lesbianism is Queer Politics (On Political Lesbianism pt. 2)
'Political Lesbianism' shares some characteristics with Butlerian Queer Theory, specifically: divorcing biological sex from sexual orientation, performativity, and asexuality and 'fluidity'. We discuss those and in particular 'political lesbians' criticism of butch / femme relationships that rely...
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Episode 119: On Political Lesbianism pt.1
'Political lesbianism' can be traced back to heterosexual feminists of the 1960s second-wave in the United States. We discus its origin, the way 'political lesbians' change the definition of lesbian to fit themselves, the parallels with transgenderism, the nonsense concept of 'compulsory...
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Episode 118: The Transman 'Gotcha'
Since the UK Supreme Court ruling clarifying the definition of woman in the Equality Act, trans activists have decided 'transmen' now matter and are using this tiny cohort of women to claim sex-based public toilet arrangements cannot work due to them as a 'gotcha' against the ruling. We discuss…
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Episode 117: UK Supreme Court Win! Victory Lap Episode
Yesterday, For Women Scotland won a momentous victory at the UK's Supreme Court, where it was clarified that 'sex' within the Equality Act refers to biological sex. We discuss why men are so psychosexually unhinged about the outcome, as seen by the dismay and disbelief at a victory secured by...
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Episode 116: In Plain Sight: Andrew Tate and Russell Brand
We discuss the new criminal and civil accusations levelled at former comedian Russell Brand, and social media influencer and pimp, Andrew Tate. Themes include: how globalisation means rapists can avoid state accountability, Brand’s artful dodger act turned Messiah-like guru, how camp is a...
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Episode 115: Online Censorship DARVO
State plans for online censorship are a form of DARVO. The same liberals who promoted transgenderism, and have not given two hoots about pornography, are now telling us they care about online misogyny. The BBC as the state's mouthpiece has harboured more child abusers than the average prison…
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Episode 114: Adolescence, A Critical Review
We review heralded new Netflix show Adolescence and give our criticisms about its depiction of the cause of male violence against women being, primarily, that boys aren’t loved and supported enough by men. Referencing Victoria Smith’s book ‘Unkind’, we reflect on the myth that violent men are...
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Episode 113: The British Left’s Backtrack on Woke
Sections of the UK radical-liberal Left are doing somewhat of a u-turn on woke identity politics. Why now? We discuss the total unwillingness of the Left to acknowledge feminist arguments, woke scolds unwavering loyalty to pretending men are women, and the continued ham-fisted burial of the UK…
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Episode 112: The Tates Flee to the U.S
The Tate brothers have fled Romanian for the United States, leaving their combined half a dozen daughters behind, and avoiding their pending trial for rape, assault, and sex trafficking minors. Their case exemplifies the phrase 'justice delayed is justice denied'. Will they now reinvent…
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Episode 111: Review of (Un)kind: How 'Be Kind' Entrenches Sexism
We review Victoria Smith's new book '(Un)kind: How 'Be Kind' Entrenches Sexism'. We discuss the overarching expectation on women to “be kind” and its implications, such as making space for men in women's spaces, disagreeing with men a cardinal sin, and women as virtuous only if endlessly…
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Episode 110: Cancer Fakers (Apple Cider Vinegar)
Belle Gibson is an Australian woman who faked surviving several bouts of terminal cancer, and has become the subject of a Netflix dramatisation of those events, entitled Apple Cider Vinegar. Gibson became famous for her nutrition app The Whole Pantry, after claiming to have cured her cancer…
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Episode 109: Mollie-Mae and the Everywoman Archetype
In this pop culture episode we discuss reality TV star and social media influencer turned multimillionaire businesswoman Mollie-Mae, as an 'everywoman' archetype. That leads to a discussion about class-based differences in beauty standards, the modern norms of breakup culture, and co-parenting...
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Episode 108: The Omni Diagnosis
We discuss the cycle of women being put on psychiatric drugs over the last seventy years, typically a trend of SSRIs and then switching to stimulants, and its relationship to femininity. The internet has caused many women to self-diagnose due feeling there is something wrong with them and then…
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Episode 107: A Week in the End of Woke
In advance of Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20th companies such as Meta, Walmart, McDonalds, and others, have announced the scrapping of their DEI policies. We discuss that political shift and also lasts weeks criticism of the LA Fire Departments DEI policies that led to the circulation…
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Episode 106: On the UK Pakistani Grooming Gangs
Since the start of 2025 the presence of Pakistani 'grooming gangs' operating across the United Kingdom has dominated online discourse and parliamentary debate. We discuss the nature of these 'gangs', provide a cultural analysis of why they existed, and consider the scale of the political cover-up...
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Episode 105: The Cambridge Smell PhD
Dr. Ally Louks, a scholar at Cambridge University, created a frenzy online after posing for a selfie with her PhD thesis entitled 'Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose’. Her tweet went viral, with over 120 million views to date. We discuss the backlash and why…
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Episode 104: The Costs of Euthanasia
We respond to Labour MP Pat McFadden's suggestion that anyone wanting to be euthanised should pay for it themselves. We talk package deals, budget deaths, and spectacular deluxe send offs involving planes and assassination-style takedowns. We wonder how the bureaucracy around death will work?…
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Episode 103: Inheritance Tax on Farmers, Globalisation, and Post-Humanism
The Labour government is set to introduce inheritance tax on farms that will potentially decimate the farming industry in the UK. We take a heretical leftwing position by arguing against this in the name of food sovereignty, productive value, and anti-globalisation. We discuss how the Left used…
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Episode 102: Trans Intolerance of Ambiguity and the Need to Categorise
We discuss the relationship between transgender ideology's tendency towards categorisation and the black and white concreteness of mind required to buy in to it. The more ambiguous, messier parts of subjectivity can cause a certain ambivalence, for which surgeries, hormones, and cosmetic…
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Episode 101: Why Trump Won
Donald Trump won the American Presidential election last week in a landslide victory, winning every swing state, and almost 'flipping' a few others. We discuss how he managed to pull off a feat that most polls and political commentators were not expecting. If Trump's win signals a wider crisis of...
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Episode 100: The Run Up to the U.S Election
The 2024 U.S Election results will be known in just 36 - 48 hours time. We discuss how acrimonious the run up has been, and how dominant online discourse has become in shaping political outcomes. We cover the new normalcy of openly wishing violence on your political opponents or those who differ...
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Episode 99: Am I A Racist? Reviewed
We review Matt Walsh's new documentary uncovering the DEI movement in the United States. 'Am I a Racist?' looks at race relations specifically, and the self-help, grief counselling, Protestant evangelical culture found within the workshops he attends. There is a pessimism at the heart of these…
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Episode 98: Being a Feminist in Public and Euthanasia as Socially Constructing Death
The UK's Labour government has announced a proposal to introduce euthanasia for the terminally ill. We approach that in the latter 40 minutes of this episode, after a discussion of what it's like to be a feminist in public. Expressing feminist ideas in public can lead to encountering attention...
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Episode 97: The Insect Attack at LGBA and Why Young Women Become TRAs
Last weekend LGB Alliance Conference was attacked by Trans activists releasing insects at their event. We discuss why LGBA inspires such ire from Trans activists and how this attack was a form of resent-filled revenge after losing Self-ID with the Labour government. We also consider why young…
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