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Opinionated: The Feminists You Were Warned About
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A Terrifying Tidal Wave of Pussy
All about pussies this week! Who gets to control them? Do they really shut down when raped? Is it cool to treat women as some irritating obstacle betw...
Analyzing the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver
Michael Brooks comes on to explore the question of whether the Paul Ryan pick means Mitt Romney wants to lose. Samhita and Amanda discuss why people f...
How to Be Black
Baratunde Thurston joins the podcast to talk about race, the election, and assorted nonsense. Samhita and Amanda discuss the shooting in Wisconsin and...
Romney's Dancing Horse
Zerlina Maxwell comes on the show to talk about Romney's parade of gaffes, as well as his fancy dancing horse he claims to have practically forgotten...
The Goddess of Cats
Women are trying to find female friends though online "dating". This might be a better idea than it seems on the surface. After the horrible tragedy i...
F*ck You Feminists Are Numerous
Samhita and Amanda discuss a profile of Caitlin Moran in Slate that treats her like the only fuck-you feminist left standing. Another New York Times a...
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Samhita has finally watched "Girls", just in time to talk about the Anna Holmes piece in the New Yorker about the show and the realities of female fri...
Busy Busy and Sometimes Lazy Feminists
Samhita and Amanda bring on Ann Friedman, beloved editor and Tumblr genius, to discuss how busy we are all the time. Or are we actually just farting i...
The Four-Headed Progressive Chat Monster
Jamie and Allison from "Citizen Radio" brought on Amanda and Samhita for an hour+ discussion about the Supreme Court, lady stuff, pick-up artists, and...
Feminists Will Not Punch You In The Nose For Opening Doors
Who knew a sneaker could be so racist? Samhita and Amanda investigate. A rape scene in an upcoming video game points to some larger problems with sexi...
Women Use The Computer Box
Samhita and Amanda discuss the season finale of Mad Men, and the problem that arises when one of the most feminist shows on TV has a race-fail. Turns...
Feminists Love Shiny Objects
Samhita and Amanda are very sorry they ran off to the circus for a week, and promise not to do it again. Post-circus topics: Sex selective abortion in...
How The GOP Got With the Mail Order Bride Industry
Samhita and Amanda discuss the battle over the Violence Against Women Act, and how the mail order bride industry got involved. New numbers from the Ce...
President Obama Must Listen To This Podcast
Erika Nicole Kendall comes on to talk about feminist approaches to weight and health, and to denounce the NY Times yet again for making a pointless sp...
I Want To Offer My Love And Respect To The End
Samhita has a birthday and an anniversary of quitting the demon tobacco. Amanda parties with the rednecks. Both are deeply saddened by the death of Ad...
The One Where Religion Is Blamed for Everything
The Violence Against Women Act is running against reauthorization problems. The Christian right is to blame, of course, but why this is especially app...
Let's All Change Our Names To Clothing Measurements
Samhita and Amanda discuss Mona Eltahawy's powerful and complex piece on misogyny in Muslim nations. In their version of lightening the mood, they als...
Eternity Is A Hologram Of Famous Feminists Getting Spanked
Samhita and Amanda are appalled by Katie Roiphe's aggressive anti-feminist trolling. The hologram of Tupac Shakur creates a rift in the space-time con...
The Ins and Outs of the Bone Zone
Samhita and Amanda welcome special guest Aminatou Sow to discuss why not every man living in the friend zone wants to be in the bone zone with his fem...
Feminists Vs. The Anti-Sex League
An anti-choice legislator in Georgia compares women to farm animals in an effort to strip away their rights to basic medical care. Terrorists attack a...
Zou Bisou Bisou
Jesse Taylor joins the show to talk about Trayvon Martin and dealing with the irrational fear of black men and boys that leads to violence. Samhita an...
Sick Bay Feminists
Samhita has a cold and Amanda is recovering from laryingitis, giving her voice a one time only huskiness, special for devoted listeners. Your hosts be...
Breakfast Tacos and Bullshit
Samhita and Amanda are at South By Southwest Interactive! They're both presenting and absorbing and have lots of exciting news to share about technolo...
Rush Limbaugh Uses Kitten Blood Instead of Milk on His Cheerios
Amanda and Samhita don't like Rush Limbaugh, not one bit. But they appreciate his willingness to just come out with it and label 99% of American women...
Don't Say Vagina!
Samhita and Amanda ponder the mystery that is men who want to touch vaginas, want to punish women who use their own vaginas by probing their vaginas,...
Sexless Marriage: The Conservative Solution to Abortion
Samhita and Amanda explain, in great detail, what a douchebag Ross Douthat really is. It's educational, and not just about Douthat! Interracial marria...
A Shocking Lack of Support for Wife-Beating
Amanda and Samhita are not on Team Chris Brown. Shocking, I know. An explanation of how thoroughly Obama punked the Republicans on contraception acces...
Science Says They're Babies!
Samhita and Amanda talk Super Bowl, partying on Valentine's Day and the unpopular opinion that "Parks and Rec" is starting to suck. Sady Doyle comes o...
The Presidents of Feminism
Samhita and Amanda talk about Occupy Oakland and Occupy Valentine's Day. Marc Faletti explains why the NFL is so sexist and racist, but why people lov...
Air-Humping Your Affections
Samhita and Amanda talk about why Republicans love Newt Gingrich despite his immense and hypocritical baggage. Why is it that once people get into the...
The Inevitable "Ladies Love Shoes" Episode
Samhita and Amanda depress themselves talking about the racism on display at the Republican debate in South Carolina on King Day. To cheer themselves...
Gentlemen: Do Your Laundry
The Tea Party is a lot more than angry white dudes. It's also angry white ladies. Amanda and Samhita investigate why. Jamilah King comes on to discuss...
Feminists Want To Dress Your Kids in Gray and Mauve
Samhita and Amanda discuss the most recent flare-up of sexist tantrum throwing in the online atheist community. Is there a reason to believe that litt...
The Year in Suck and Awesome
Samhita and Amanda discuss some of the ugliest developments this year in both reproductive rights and sexual violence. Republicans spent 2011 losing t...
Chris Hitchens Had A Lot of Books: What Now, Feminists?
Samhita and Amanda discuss the legacy of Christopher Hitchens. The Egyptian military cracks down on protesters with a special sadism towards women. Am...
Bro Down and Out
Samhita's out of town, so Katie Halper steps in to make fun of Newt Gingrich in her place. Gingrich pledges on to cheat on his wife in exchange for vo...
TIGERBLOOD
Amanda and Samhita discuss the French approach to prostitution and how it may change, what makes online dating so bemusing, and why the people on Twit...
Kinky Pizza and Bird Feeder Weddings
Jenn Pozner comes on to discuss the question: Can reality TV do any good after feeding us years of rich bitches and drunken bimbos? Herman Cain reasse...
Giving Thanks for Porn-Obsessed Feminists
Samhita and Amanda give advice on how to survive your family this Thanksgiving when they badger you about still being single. Amanda Hess from GOOD te...
The Inaugural Episod of Opinionated
Samhita and Amanda introduce themselves, and discuss the feminist politcs of Occupy Wall St., the Herman Cain sexual harassment debacle, and Katie Roi...