Hosted by Tracy Clark-Flory & Amanda Montei · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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A feminist podcast critiquing heterosexual love, sex, politics, and culture. www.direstraightspod.com
Tracy Clark-Flory & Amanda Montei hosts Dire Straights, a society show with 30 episodes published.
Today we’re digging into an age-old question along the lines of has feminism ruined the workplace? and has feminism pushed men into the manosphere? and did feminism get Trump elected? We gathered a roundtable of people w
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live. This week, Tracy was joined by a special guest: Myisha Battle, a feminist sex an
Tracy’s newest book, My Mother’s Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family’s Fractured Past, is out May 5th! It’s a memoir about how a DNA test connected Tracy with her sister Kathy, who her mom placed for adoption at a home
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com It’s not just the manosphere, MAGA, TERFs, or reactionary feminists who are hating on “2010s feminism” right now. Increasingly, liber
Remember the 90s? The Spice Girls were singing about girl power, and Britney Spears was asking someone to hit her one more time. Amanda was shopping at the Limited Too at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, while Tracy was sporti
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com The right-wing really wants women to need men. Maybe you’ve heard: Earlier this year, The Heritage Foundation—the same ghouls who bro
Whether you believe all wine moms are members of ANTIFA or that they’re just apolitical white ladies with too much rosé all day, it’s irrefutable that drunk and high mommies have a long, loaded cultural and political his
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live. We started with a debrief of last night’s State of the Union. If you didn’t watc
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com The adult industry has turned into a popular scapegoat for nearly every problem in hetero life and culture right now. Pornography is
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live. Today’s bonus episode was a cultural and political grab bag. Just a few topics w
Perhaps you’ve heard, men will do literally anything to avoid going to therapy. They will eat raw liver, obsess about the Roman Empire, run American democracy into the ground, start their own paramilitary organization, d
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live. We got into the hetero-politics of the Department of Homeland Security. Given th
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Monogamy is essential to the culture of heterosexuality. From its historical roots as a marital expectation for wives, but not husban
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Welcome to Dire Straights Live, one of our bonus podcast episodes recorded on Substack in front of a virtual audience. If you're list
We’re back from the flurry of the holidays and new year, and we’re digging into dating. Last month, we hosted our first-ever live recording of this podcast, and let’s just say we heard loud and clear that dating today… s
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com In this episode, we ask an age-old question that somehow also feels very of the moment: Can married and unmarried women be friends? M
You just survived Thanksgiving. You might now be surviving the onslaught of holiday commercials and Hallmark movies starring big-city career women who are reminded of the true meaning of Christmas after falling in love w
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Are men OK? Is there actually a “male loneliness crisis”? Is it women’s job to fix it? What role should straight women play in rescui
This week, we wrestle with what WWE and UFC tell us about the current moment in gender, heterosexuality, and American politics. We talk about some truly terrible men—Vince McMahon, Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Tate
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com Today, we’re talking about the fifth shift — all the labor and consumerism that heterosexual women engage in to maintain their marita
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