Discussing "2 Dope Queens"

What's up caffeine addicts,

Since class had to be canceled on Friday, I got the chance to learn about a new podcast that was sent to us called "2 Dope Queens." The podcast that I ended up listening to was "The 2 Dope Queens Go Marching" and there were two things that I found most interesting about this podcast episode.

The first thing that I found interesting was when one of the guests was talking about how her body would make people do anything for her. This immediately reminded me of the discussions we have had in class in which we spoke of the fact that the only real "power" we give women is to inflict sexual desire upon men. This is actually very sexist though because it doesn't really give power to them. Instead, it just rewards the correct feminine behavior by making them into a puppet almost in that their "power" is actually derived from an external force which would be men in this case. The woman is obliged to work and become beautiful for a guy so that they can have any sense of power at all.

The next thing that I found interesting was the jokes that she made about how ridiculous some of the reasons are for being pro-life. For one thing, it completely disregards the mothers choice; you know, the person that actually has to deal with what will become of her situation. And it is also ridiculous because people become hypocrites when they support something, under a different name, which can easily be connected to having the same ideas as abortion.

I really enjoyed the satirical humor that this podcast took in dealing with a lot of feminist issues while also staying relevant to the problems at hand.

Stay awesome