Episode 5: Katie And Jesse Decide Who Is Valid
After Katie almost destroys the podcast with her wanton use of the worst slur in the English language (or any other), the cohosts discuss an outrage story about Canadian military pronouns and Alex Berenson's coronavirus contrarianism. Jesse then tries to unpack Online Validity Discourse, leading the cohosts to discuss questions like "What does it even mean to be valid?," "How many people can you have sex with before you're not asexual anymore?," and "Would Jesse dress better if he were gay?" The show ends with a brief chat about the show's possible Patreon future.
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Show Notes
Show notes:
-EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Armed Forces requires all personnel to stop using gendered pronouns (https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-armed-forces-requires-all-personnel-to-stop-using-gendered-pronouns) (The Post Millennial)
-Alex Berenson's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson)
-Here Are the Questions the Right's Favorite Coronavirus Truther Isn't Willing to Answer (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jge7g4/here-are-the-question-the-rights-favorite-coronavirus-truther-isnt-willing-to-answer) (Vice)
-Does the King of the COVID-19 Contrarians Have a Case? (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/does-the-king-of-the-covid-19-contrarians-have-a-case) (Vanity Fair)
-We feel too bad spotlighting any specific tweets about people "being valid" so here just click this link to take you to a search for that phrase instead (https://twitter.com/search?q=%22you%20are%20valid%22&src=typed_query)
-When A Child Says She's Trans (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/) (Jesse's article in The Atlantic)
-Slate, Pete Buttigieg, And The Limited Market For Left-Wing Identitarianism (https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/slate-pete-buttigieg-and-the-limited) (Singal-Minded)
-The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovic.html) (The New York Times Magazine) (and the audio version from The Daily (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/podcasts/the-daily/weird-al-yankovic-coronavirus-music.html))
-The Family Featured in the NYT Article About Queer Families Looks Awfully Straight (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/30/26113961/the-family-featured-in-the-nyt-article-about-queer-families-looks-awfully-straight) (The Stranger)
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