The short is this: Don’t bother listening to this unless you need to confirm your rightwing views in propaganda couched in feminist language.
I came across this podcast on a list of leftist podcasts and figured I could listen to this as a news source from deliberately feminist lenses.
It started with some yellow lights when they talked about being separatist feminists (which last time I checked was an outdated tendency); then I checked the description of the episode on sex work and found it odd how they were against even consensual BDSM. When I read up on their guest’s page and how they were in favor of a particular legislation, I found it weird as radical leftists generally found that reform doesn’t really lead to liberation. When I looked up what the “Equality Model” legislation was; that’s when I realized that it was a SWERF organization. First red flag.
Then, just to be sure, I looked for an episode on trans issues. It was from several years ago. The guest was chock full of transphobic rhetoric like “transgenderism”. Second red flag.
Finally I re-read the latest episode, it wasn’t criticizing the LGB Alliance, it had one of them as a guest, taken at face value. They not only kept doing it but they doubled down on their transphobia. Last red flag needed.
Again, don’t take them seriously on the feminist angle.
