Feminists get married too

Things have been heavy lately, so it was really nice doing a more lighthearted episode of “Standing Room Only” about the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce engagement. But don’t worry! It’s still about politics. The episode explores how MAGA reacted, and why their hopes that Swift’s impending marriage means she’s going to abandon feminism are so deeply misguided.

Money changes everything

My guest, Lyz Lenz, writes about feminism and divorce, and so offered a helpful reality check on the Taylor & Travis fantasy discourse. In this clip, she talks about how we can only draw very limited lessons from their engagement — because these two are so rich that ordinary people basically can’t relate.

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Encore song of the week: “Karma” by Taylor Swift

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