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Podcast #8: Are you a bad feminist?

Are you a bad feminist?

(That’s ok. So are we.)

This week’s episode of the podcast looks at what a Bad Feminist is, why you might be one too, and the reason you can nod smugly about it. Spoiler: It’s actually a really good thing.

Also, the listener condundrum that made us question why we openly appraise other women’s style. If we’re all supposed to be “beautiful no matter what”, is complimenting a woman on her looks damaging the sisterhood?

This week we discovered how our Minister For Women, Tony Abbott, celebrated International Women’s Day.  We pondered why Andrew Chan’s engagement news isn’t the beacon of hope we wanted, and why some women fall in love with prisoners.

Download it on itunes, listen in Soundcloud, download the audio file here.

The extraordinary revelations of sexual harassment in the medical profession leads Sarah MacDonald to recount her experience with surgeons. And it’s surprisingly awful.

Time Magazine called 2014 The Year Of Roxane Gay, so we have the essential guide to this fierce, funny woman.

Forget Taylor Swift, there’s a new spirit animal in our lives. Time Magazine called 2014 The Year Of Roxane Gay, so we have the essential guide to this fierce, funny woman.

Plus, the desperate campaign to save baby Gary, why conception sex is the most unromantic thing in the world, the ONE marketing product that the Kardashians have probably never thought of, and Mia’s morbid fascination of people crying in public.

Have you listened to the Mamamia podcast? Anything you want us to know? 

Catch up with last week’s episode here