The Muslims Down Under Podcast

Podcast would be greatly improved if they actually cited the nebulous “research” they continually refer to (though I think making the studies accessible and referencing their sources would undermine the points being made). The most recent episode on the nuclear family claims to be critiquing social constructs but doesn’t actually understand what social constructivism refers to. Or more accurately, it seeks to call anything it doesn’t like a social construct while everything the speakers stand for is supposedly self-evidently natural, essential, and innate. Don’t be fooled by their misuse of progressive jargon such as “ideology,” “constructs,” or “social justice,” for they don’t know what they’re doing with these ideas and use them to (inelegantly) smuggle in their (flimsy) conservative talking points.

The IWD episode came into my feed and it completely misses the mark. The hosts kept referring to the objectives of feminism as simplistic however they failed to grasp the crux of this “simplistic” ideology. Feminism does not force you to fulfil a role you do not desire - it simply states that there should be choice and agency for individuals. Further, the emphasis on the biological difference between men and women stopped just short of transphobic but what can you expect from an Ahmadi production. Also there is no cancel culture for motherhood lol