New House of Comments episode: You Know That You're Toxic
I talk to the brilliant Sarah Ditum about her book Toxic: Women, Fame and the Noughties
Co-hosts Charlotte Henry and Emma Burnell are taking a small post-election break. However, there is something special for you - an interview with author Sarah Ditum about her book "Toxic". Normal service resumes next week.
I really enjoyed both this book and this chat and hope you will too!
Listen here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-know-that-108004476
Really enjoyed this. Particularly this quote. I think we are in a vibe shift. Not sure to where but you can feel it. 2010's moral purity is going bye bye.
"we're in a very different moment now. And I think in the conclusion you describe this as we've gone
from sort of sexual purity, you know, judging celebrities for their sexual antics to moral
purity, judging people for their wrongthink, their bad opinions. So we're no longer having a short
skirt that's a problem. It's having the wrong opinion on anything.
Yes, yes.
But it does seem to still be women who largely bear the brunt of that.
Oh, very much. I think purity culture of every form always falls hardest on women.
I read a really interesting interview with the singer and producer and songwriter Charlie XCX
from earlier this year, where she was saying that she's just, she's sick of being in this
environment where she feels like she has to second guess herself creatively all the time,
because of what people might think. And he said, you know, I just want to go back to the old Paris
days. So I do think we have reached kind of, we've reached the limit of that censorious culture."