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 themselves away from being pornographers, pimps, and professional criminals? Plus, the Tates status of persona non-grata in the American conservative movement, why the Romanian state has effectively let them go, and their combination of sadism, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.

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 forgiving. Other themes of the book discussed are the concept of "himpathy”, women’s kindness as transformative for men, women's kindness when tied to sexual access, and how the "be kind" mantra helps to secures male dominance in social interactions with women. Plus, examples of famous men being absolutely unkind and never being policed for it, men as ‘sexual communists’ when it comes to wanting an equality of sexual access according to sex as a supposed need, JD Vance’s excellently unkind grandmother, men's rage when women say “no", and how adherence to ‘be kind’ explains why more women than men supports trans rights, despite transgenderism not being in women's interests and very much in men's interests.

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 through healthy eating. We discuss what makes people fake having cancer, the understanding between illness and morality, and New Age lifestyle moralism as a kind of feminine personal policing. Plus, how caring for the sick as a cultural value is not universal, Münchausen syndrome and the accruing of medical evidence, radical feminism's promotion of naturopathy, Trump’s diet, veganism, placebos, and traditional Chinese medicine.

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 arrangements. Plus, the difficulty of committed romantic relationships across cultural divides despite globalisation making it more possible than ever, insights from couples therapist Esther Perel, and the expectations on famous women to keep up with trend cycles as age.

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 seek out the diagnosis. Many women, against all observable evidence, feel inadequate and that their must be something wrong with them if feel unable to keep up with the demands of motherhood or the increasingly hostile work environments of late capitalism. From the popular rise of Prozac to today's methamphetamine shortage, we discuss some of the reoccurring themes women describe when seek medication to "feel better".

Plus, why women and girls are often told they "talk too much" (especially when good communicators), the never ending treadmill to nowhere of femininity, being outside the social fabric as a gay person, how economic demands create social avenues, the denial of social construction in gender norms amidst declarations of nature, and the problem with Twin Studies.

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 of some inadvertently comical clips of fire fighters espousing the need to 'look like' the people you're saving. We also wonder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s metamorphosis into a jujitsu ‘bro’ and change of political allegiance is authentic or if it’s simply part doing what’s best for his company. Plus, whether Canada should join American (Hannah is ready to enlist!), the competence rhetoric of the ‘anti woke’ right, the central point people get wrong about social construction, mixed sex platoons in the army, and the feminisation of workplaces that creates emphasis on who you are rather than what you do.

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 by the Labour Party, police, and local authorities. Plus, the key divide in feminism on the issue, the Left’s sentiment that they own feminism because their project is a claim to liberating all humanity, Jimmy Savile, islamophobia as conceptually tied to imperialism or a useless term, and the Left’s delusion that ethnic minorities are universally aligned with them.

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 we think her English Literature PhD caused such a furore. Including... anti-intellectualism, envy, knowledge as something possession of a particular sex, the crisis in the American academy, and the history of conservatives in literature. Plus, what dealing with academic charlatans is like, what PhDs actually are, and why men sometimes hate something a woman does precisely because it’s excellent.