Feminist Frequency Radio is coming for your media. Each week, Kat Spada invites you to listen in on entertaining and stimulating conversations about films, games, and TV... from the latest blockbusters to classic hidden gems, and more. With special guests bringing their distinctly different feminist perspectives to the mix as they celebrate and critique it all—including media critics, entertainers, academics, and everyone in between—Feminist Frequency Radio is there to help you dig deeper into the things you love. Warning: Feminist Frequency Radio may significantly enhance your media experience. Created by Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency ran as an organization from 2009–2023, providing video commentaries exploring gender representations, myths, and messages in popular culture media. Now, host Kat Spada continues Feminist Frequency Radio's legacy as an independent podcast, with fun new conversations about entertainment that asks you to be critical of the media you love.
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episode 20: 20 Enjoy Your Sloppy Nostalgia Pudding While Also Eating a Chicken Sandwich
In this week’s episode, Carolyn has visited the OASIS of Ready Player One and lives to tell Anita and Ebony the tale, demonstrating her own knowledge of obscure pop culture trivia and criticizing RPO for its use of the woman-as-trophy trope familiar to so many of the properties that inspired it. The gang then moves on to ABC’s Roseanne revival, which pulled in huge numbers of viewers. Is it an important portrayal of white working-class experience, or a harmful sanitization of the damage done by Trump voters? Finally, in What’s Your FREQ-Out, Carolyn recommends an excellent TV show, Ebony recommends a terrible movie, and Anita gushes over a great documentary series that explores intersections of food, culture, politics and tradition.
Segment Timestamps:
:00 Brought to you by…
:25 Intro/Greetings
2:25 Entertainment news: John K.
5:40 Ready Player One
27:10 Roseanne
48:05 What’s Your FREQ-Out? (Carolyn on The Americans, Ebony on Prom Night, Anita on Ugly Delicious)
58:10 wrap-up
Relevant Links:
Constance Grady on Ready Player One and GamerGate for Vox: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/26/17148350/ready-player-one-book-backlash-controversy-gamergate-explained
VR Chat and the scourge of the Ugandan Knuckles meme: Julia Alexander for Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/8/16863932/ugandan-knuckles-meme-vrchat
Ready Player One is an Accidental Horror Movie About Fandom: Alison Willmore for Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonwillmore/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-fandom?utm_term=.ayvByWo7d#.qsY260R17
Why the New Roseanne Reboot Just Plain Sucks: Rob Sheffield for Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/rob-sheffield-why-the-roseanne-reboot-sucks-w518543
The Roseanne Reboot Is Funny. I’m Not Going to Keep Watching: Roxane Gay for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/opinion/roseanne-reboot-trump.html