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SMNTY Classics: Witchsploitation · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: stuff I've never told you, a protection of iHeart Radio,
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  Speaker 1: it on this movie called The Love, which which I
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy. Oh you should see it. It is. It
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  Speaker 1: is a very bizarre film. I will say that is
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  Speaker 1: quite bizarre, but I really really enjoyed it. It has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff about periods. You know, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: It's a very fascinating film and recommended, as I say
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  Speaker 1: in this episode by a listener. So thank you, because
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  Speaker 1: we always do take these recommendations into account, and you
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  Speaker 1: listeners have turned me on to some pretty amazing stuff,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you. Um, but yes, please enjoy this classic episode. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: never told you prediction of I Heart Radio, so this
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  Speaker 1: fun it was something I'd never heard of but definitely
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  Speaker 1: should have known. It was a thing, but you brought
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  Speaker 1: it to my attention, Samantha today we're talking about which ploytation, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was very of course, I was in my world
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  Speaker 1: of twitter verse and there was several uh whether it
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  Speaker 1: was I think she was publishing some books and doing
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  Speaker 1: some speaking and then below was talking about wish ploitation,
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  Speaker 1: which I was like, whoa, oh, oh what is this?
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  Speaker 1: And he must know and I just started to texting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was like, Hey, let's talk about this
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  Speaker 1: because this sounds really interesting, especially since we seem to
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  Speaker 1: be really into witches right now. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they're killing it at the protests, like they're there and
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, which is yes, yes, um. It's a long
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  Speaker 1: history of which is in protesting, which we'll touch on
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  Speaker 1: a little bit in this one, and when we have
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  Speaker 1: touched on it before, and yeah, we've been doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of which content lately. We did the craft. We
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  Speaker 1: did a witch, um, right, so we thought we could
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  Speaker 1: do more. We have a big list. We do have
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  Speaker 1: a big list that it's not a lie, so as
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  Speaker 1: we love to do at the start with the definition
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  Speaker 1: in a literature cinema, the use of the craft are
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  Speaker 1: more broadly paganism in general for sensationalistic usually horror inducing ends. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And this is from the Mapping Contemporary Cinema website, which
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  Speaker 1: I found a lot of great content on. If you're interested, um,
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  Speaker 1: it might help us to define the exportation film genre
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  Speaker 1: at large two and give a bit of that history.
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  Speaker 1: So these films emerged in the nineteen thirties and at
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  Speaker 1: the time they were uh verging on pornographic often described
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  Speaker 1: as the film version of freak shows, and they usually
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  Speaker 1: came with some heavy handed moral messaging. They frequently used
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  Speaker 1: pornographic images to condemn pornography, for example, playing on what
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  Speaker 1: audiences wanted, what they thought was forbidden, and then getting
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  Speaker 1: away with it under the guys that ultimately they were
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  Speaker 1: condemning these things, i e. The sexy lady would die
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  Speaker 1: for being sexy. A simple definition of exportation films is
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  Speaker 1: something that is in quote bad taste for the time. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: by the time the sixties rolled around, exploitation films had
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  Speaker 1: evolved from the strip tease to the nudity blatantly looking
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  Speaker 1: to stir up feelings that were disturbing and arousing. The
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  Speaker 1: moral lesson was out the window, and this happened to
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  Speaker 1: coincide with the renewed interest in which is wicker the
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  Speaker 1: occult and in part driven by the psychedelic community. Here
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  Speaker 1: we see the rise of which ploitation films. So let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about which is One of the most recent examples
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  Speaker 1: of mass which burning was the Salem which trials of
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen hundreds, culminating in the death of fourteen women.
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  Speaker 1: But our cultural interest never truly went away, as we
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  Speaker 1: see it all the time, Yes, as we keep talking
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  Speaker 1: about it ourselves. Also Asterix, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people use the term which burning to call to encompass
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  Speaker 1: any kind of killing of which is in the sand
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  Speaker 1: which trials I believe it was hanging um. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: the death the execution of which is if we step
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  Speaker 1: back to eighties, it is best selling witch hunting manual
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  Speaker 1: Malleus Maleficarum, written by Catholic inquisitors and theologians. We can
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  Speaker 1: see the long history our society has of fearing female agency.
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  Speaker 1: Here is a quote from that book. When a woman
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  Speaker 1: thinks alone, she thinks evil, which I can't deny. But
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  Speaker 1: come uh. He claimed that women were having sex with
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  Speaker 1: devils and demons and writing on broomsticks. A k a
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  Speaker 1: uh dildos, which was troublesome because it implied that these
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  Speaker 1: women didn't need a man. Look, I know, horror of horrors.
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  Speaker 1: The book addresses it directly in quote how as it were,
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  Speaker 1: which is deprived men of his virile member. Uh. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: And it goes on. And what then is to be
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  Speaker 1: thought of those witches who, in this way sometimes collect
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  Speaker 1: male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or
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  Speaker 1: thirty members together, and put them in a bird's nest,
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  Speaker 1: or shut them up and up box where they moved
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  Speaker 1: themselves like living members and oats and corns. But as
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  Speaker 1: has been seen by many, and it is a matter
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  Speaker 1: of common report right there, right, that's like a pet
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really funny now their modern eyes. But
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  Speaker 1: yes they I mean they were killing people. Um from
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  Speaker 1: the mid fourteen hundreds of sixteen hundreds, yes, which hunting
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  Speaker 1: resulted in the death of up to one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: in Europe. About eight percent of those deaths were women,
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  Speaker 1: many who lived in some way on the outside of society, healers, midwives,
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  Speaker 1: those who lived alone or poor or widowed, or in
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  Speaker 1: some way controlled or owned property. Those who complained if
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  Speaker 1: they weren't religious. Um Torture usually followed, including an examining
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  Speaker 1: of the body for a third nipple and a vaginal
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  Speaker 1: teat where it was believed that women milk gave their
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  Speaker 1: milk to like goats and rabbits and stuff, and they
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  Speaker 1: found guilty death by fire, beheading or hanging, so the
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  Speaker 1: examination was an autopsy after they died. No, this was
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  Speaker 1: before hands. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting, So historians believe which hunting
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  Speaker 1: had to do with Europe's and later America's need to
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  Speaker 1: control women's bodies, surprise, and their ability to reproduce. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: within the sanction family structure for capital and labor, their
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  Speaker 1: ability to produce more workers, and this included the bodies
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  Speaker 1: of enslaved black women as well. Enslaved women of childbearing
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  Speaker 1: age were called an increase because they could increase potential
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  Speaker 1: wealth of the owner. Women who quote did not need
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  Speaker 1: a man who weren't having children for one reason another
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  Speaker 1: were a threat the Maliu's mouth Acaram addresses this directly too,
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  Speaker 1: so quote how which does imp and prevent the power
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  Speaker 1: of procreation? And quote which is who are midwives in
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  Speaker 1: various ways kill the child conceived in the womb and
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  Speaker 1: procure an abortion or if they did not, this offer
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  Speaker 1: newborn children to the devil obviously. Jeez oh. And I
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  Speaker 1: just want to put in here too. We're not focusing
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  Speaker 1: on it today, but there is a witch hunting tradition
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  Speaker 1: outside of Western culture. Uh. And I know I read
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  Speaker 1: some about what has happened in India and Africa. Would
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  Speaker 1: love to come back to that too, but pretty much
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  Speaker 1: focusing on Europe in America for today. Um. In four four,
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  Speaker 1: Pope Innocent the Eighth, who I would bet everything I
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  Speaker 1: have was not innocent everything I have? Um? He claimed
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  Speaker 1: that which is quote by their incantations, spells, conjurations and
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  Speaker 1: other accursive superstitions and horrid charms, enormities and offenses destroy
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  Speaker 1: the outspring of women. They hinder men from generating and
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  Speaker 1: women from conceiving. How dare they? Yes? Terrible? As Sylvia
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  Speaker 1: Frederici concluded in her two thousand four work Caliban and
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  Speaker 1: the witch witch hunts fueled by misogyny were one of
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  Speaker 1: the building blocks of capitalism and our modern state. Along
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  Speaker 1: with land and other natural resources, Women's bodies and enslaved
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  Speaker 1: bodies were exploited for capitalistic profit. Previous feminist thinkers argued too,
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  Speaker 1: that the targeting of midwives in particular was a way
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  Speaker 1: of making women dependent on male doctors for knowledge about
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  Speaker 1: their own bodies, something that continues to this day. If
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  Speaker 1: we think about who is creating an upholding laws about
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  Speaker 1: our reproductive rights restrictions around childcare and paid leave. In
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  Speaker 1: this context, the rise of digital covens casting hexes on
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh makes sense too. And the
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  Speaker 1: few of witches seen in churches saying protective spells to
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  Speaker 1: save them from hexes. I actually didn't know that happened
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  Speaker 1: until doing this research. Well, I mean, that's what's happening
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  Speaker 1: apparel in this protest churches are like praying. And also
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about the churches praying to get the
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  Speaker 1: protectors away from the hexas. But which is our sending
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  Speaker 1: out Texas? Okay? I was like, Yeah, if they hear
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  Speaker 1: that there are which is out there's that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: somewhere somebody it's going to be doing this. I'm I'm betting.
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  Speaker 1: So we started to see a mark resurgence in which
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  Speaker 1: is in our media in the nineteen sixties and seventies,
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  Speaker 1: and there was one main difference though, instead of old hags.
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  Speaker 1: These new witches were seductresses, young and sexy. Gone was
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  Speaker 1: an old woman and the threat to fertility she symbolized
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  Speaker 1: replaced with the threat of female sexuality scary something to
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  Speaker 1: be feared and obviously punished because you gotta and the
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  Speaker 1: new which was something to be consumed by who else
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  Speaker 1: men and of course then discarded. Yes. Some prime examples
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  Speaker 1: include the nineteen seventy two film of the Version which
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  Speaker 1: the film follows a model who gets all mixed up
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  Speaker 1: with the covin of lesbian, which is of course it
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  Speaker 1: was endorsed by a British adult magazine, if that tells
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  Speaker 1: you anything. Um. This was a typical plotline of which
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  Speaker 1: sportation films. Young woman is seduced by witchcraft somehow and
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  Speaker 1: this frees her from her sexual inhibitions. They usually have
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  Speaker 1: elements of softcore porn and horror. The which is power,
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  Speaker 1: the fear she held over men. It was turned into
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  Speaker 1: something that served their pleasure, and she eventually was punished
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  Speaker 1: for that power. Bitchcraft is another example from the seventies.
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  Speaker 1: Um and the Mark of the Devil a nineteen seventies
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  Speaker 1: German film about an Austrian witch hunter, and it came
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  Speaker 1: with the promise that it would set your stomach. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's set on the poster guaranteed to upset your stomach. Interesting, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: very interesting. So that's kind of a rundown of exportation
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  Speaker 1: films and some witch ploitation films. We do have some
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  Speaker 1: more for you, but first we have a quick break
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  Speaker 1: you listeners have written in about, so I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. Yeah. So, as we've discussed in previous episodes,
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  Speaker 1: which is are having a cultural reno songs, one that
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  Speaker 1: seems to crust and fall every decade or more so.
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  Speaker 1: One move that came up in our research and a
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  Speaker 1: few of you have suggested we check out is The
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  Speaker 1: Love which by Annabiller. It presents a feminist take on
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  Speaker 1: the whole witch ploittation thing. And here's the plot. A
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  Speaker 1: beautiful young witch named Elaine cast a love spell to
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  Speaker 1: find her perfect match. It doesn't turn out why she imagined,
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  Speaker 1: and leads to a murder spree and a brush with sanity.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, while there are signs of our modern day,
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  Speaker 1: much of it involves the style of sixties which ploitation film.
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  Speaker 1: The rituals are shot with the same attention frequently given
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  Speaker 1: to the female body in these films, and while her
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  Speaker 1: body is exposed in certain ways, imagery around her menstrual cycle,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, is not done for pornographic purposes, is done
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  Speaker 1: to illustrate dual power and the vulnerability of female body.
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  Speaker 1: The director has expressed her frustration that her previous films
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  Speaker 1: were labeled as sexploitation instead of critics on those films
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  Speaker 1: that borrowed some of their styles to underline the point,
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  Speaker 1: and we can see that here in this one. Elaine
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  Speaker 1: is wooden in the way she speaks, in acts, stilted,
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  Speaker 1: in one dimensional. She was in love with the idea
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  Speaker 1: of love. But every time my suitor shows any real
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  Speaker 1: emotion towards her, she kills them whoops, and she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: understand it either, resorting to a spell. Really, she's more
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  Speaker 1: interested in power. She's what women so frequently are in
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  Speaker 1: poor movies, one dimensional, rendering without emotions. She even says
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  Speaker 1: that you have to give men secks and that that's love.
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  Speaker 1: But the movie is on it totally self aware. It
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  Speaker 1: flips the stereotype and every time that man shows emotions,
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  Speaker 1: she's the one that can't take it. Yeah. I really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed watching this movie. And the first time I watched it,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, she's just like flat out saying
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  Speaker 1: really sexist things. And the person she's talking to, Trish,
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  Speaker 1: is like you you've been brainwashed by the patriarchy, And
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, whoa what is this movie? There? It is?
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  Speaker 1: It's true. Um, here's the quote from Alice and Anders
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  Speaker 1: at Talk House. Fear of the female planet rules the
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  Speaker 1: men and the love which they not only recoiled the
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  Speaker 1: side of a bloody tamp on one cop doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. It continues to amaze me how
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  Speaker 1: ministruation is still such a taboo and cinema. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: someone else who agrees with my whole theory that it's
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  Speaker 1: all about male writer's fear of the female period. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a marvelous delight to see the male characters and
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  Speaker 1: only not in charge of the narrative, but disempowered and frivolous.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to feel sorry for any of them, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: and that's really really fun for a change, to see
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  Speaker 1: the men as the one dimensional characters, the ones we
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  Speaker 1: find hard to take seriously the uninteresting ones, and I
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  Speaker 1: love the so Further, Biller has called Elaine a quote glamor,
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  Speaker 1: which but in a sense of the true meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the word. The relationship between filming and allure and magic,
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  Speaker 1: but in our culture has gotten reduced to superficial appearances.
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  Speaker 1: So this uses in the film provides commentary on how
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  Speaker 1: female power has been reduced down to beauty and a
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  Speaker 1: facade of power quick and fading. Elaine even flashes back
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  Speaker 1: to her ex husband, praising her for wearing makeup and
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  Speaker 1: for losing weight, equating her artificial power to her looks,
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  Speaker 1: and the camera frequently zooms in on her eye makeup
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  Speaker 1: as she cast spells, suggesting her power comes from this artificiality,
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  Speaker 1: and when the magic has done his job, the makeup
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  Speaker 1: has shown smeared. Mm hmmm um. The film also critiques
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  Speaker 1: our media representation of witchcraft and paganism. The male leader
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  Speaker 1: of the Covin is the one who lectures the female
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  Speaker 1: members on how to get men in power. This was
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  Speaker 1: another Steamer was like, wait, what is happening here? Um?
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  Speaker 1: He says, you know you've got to wear makeup, You've
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  Speaker 1: got to use your sexuality Elaine's joining ritual is played
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  Speaker 1: off much more as an abusive thing, with the leader
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  Speaker 1: having sex with her while the others watch. Um. This
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  Speaker 1: movie came out three days after the election, and Biller
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  Speaker 1: said about it as soon as the election happened that
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  Speaker 1: the reviews became very different, and those scenes with the
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  Speaker 1: near rape and the crowd shouting burn the Witch, that
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  Speaker 1: all feels pretty Trumpian all of a sudden. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: our previous feminist movie, Friday Pick the Bitch comes up
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  Speaker 1: a lot in which pointation conversation too, is another example
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  Speaker 1: of turning that stereotypical narrative that trope on its head.
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  Speaker 1: Feminism does end up as part of this conversation quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit, which makes sense given how often conversations around
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  Speaker 1: which is involved feminism, as you could tell when we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about on the movie. For example, there are
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  Speaker 1: the hashtag, which is of Instagram, a group looking to
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  Speaker 1: introduce people to the craft by spreading information via social media,
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  Speaker 1: and they post it called images, often with Faminus captions.
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  Speaker 1: And there's this quote from Rachel Mosley's Glamorous Witchcraft, Gender
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  Speaker 1: and Magic and Teen Film and Television. The myth of
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  Speaker 1: the which is essentially a product of male fears, historical
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  Speaker 1: stories warned of, which is crash shading men of unbalancing
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  Speaker 1: patriarchal structures, which is which. Yes, we do have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more for you listeners, but first we have
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: one more cup break for word from our sponsor and
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  Speaker 1: we're back, Thank you sponsor. Something else we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: touch on was the rise of black millennial women practicing
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  Speaker 1: witchcraft and particularly African rituals. And there's actually someone eaves
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  Speaker 1: Um is trying to put me in contact with who
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  Speaker 1: works at Georgia Tech who knows all about this, and
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  Speaker 1: I would love to talk to her. Um. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Many of these black women describe it as empowering. And
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  Speaker 1: along with that, we've seen an anxiety around white women
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  Speaker 1: appropriating or continuing to appropriate UH African rituals. You can
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  Speaker 1: even hear it uh in Princess Nokia's song Brujas Everything
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  Speaker 1: You've got you got from us. So in twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: Lakisha Harris formed a digital coven called Black Witch Chronicles,
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  Speaker 1: and in she opened a Black Witch University with the
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  Speaker 1: goal of reclaiming African traditions and concepts when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to witchcraft. Vice quoted her as saying Audrey Lord says,
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  Speaker 1: the master tools will never dismantle the Master's House. So
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  Speaker 1: what will dismantle the Master's house? Your tools, Go and
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  Speaker 1: reclaim your tools, your magical dismantle the Master's House. And
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  Speaker 1: they have podcasts, So if you want to check it out,
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  Speaker 1: you definitely should. Yes, Yes, in a very very teen
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  Speaker 1: nut show. African American witchcraft is thought to originate with
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  Speaker 1: the West African yoruba Um religious traditions centered on ancestors
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  Speaker 1: and deities. Once enslaved with African people's were forcibly brought
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  Speaker 1: over to colonial America or combined and involved with Western
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  Speaker 1: religions like Catholicism, also largely forcibly eventually giving birth to
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  Speaker 1: things like voo doo and who do. And There's been
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  Speaker 1: a long history of exotstizing and fetishizing and othering of
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  Speaker 1: witchcraft practiced by black people, and we see that play
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  Speaker 1: out in our media. While which is in general empowered
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  Speaker 1: in our media, black witches are often one dimensional characters
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  Speaker 1: that prop up the main white witches storyline, and many
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  Speaker 1: are culturally problematic and or depict evil villains terrorizing good
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  Speaker 1: white people. This speaks to not only the lack of
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  Speaker 1: representation but continue fear of the power and agency of
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  Speaker 1: black women. Yes. Um, always we always suggest being critical
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  Speaker 1: of your media and it's messaging. Do your research. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I have a good friend who says, you know, she
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  Speaker 1: has kids, and before she shows her kids anything, even
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  Speaker 1: if she remembers it fondly, Uh, worth a rewatch because
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  Speaker 1: you don't. You might not remember something in there. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean don't show it, but you know, have that
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  Speaker 1: conversation if you need to of problematic messaging or or
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  Speaker 1: don't show it, you know, right. I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 1: I think our new game and our generation has become well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's every generation honestly, when we think of
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  Speaker 1: things fondly as children and we rewatch it and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, why didn't my parents let me watch this? Yes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: some of it has been shocking, honestly, like oh wow, um,
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  Speaker 1: interesting messaging in this one, um. And certainly as we
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  Speaker 1: are seeing this resurgence in which is in our media,
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