Last week, we aired Part 1 of Michael's conversation with author Rebecca Traister about President Biden's first six months in office. Afterwards, Mike and Rebecca ended up in an unplanned, revealing and thoughtful discussion about #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment in progressive media. Traister has written forcefully on issues of gender, feminism, politics and culture. They discuss how abusers remain in power for so long, why the prison system and locking up cartoon villains will not solve the problem, and the importance of solidarity and unions to confront the entrenched power structure.
Rumble Episode 203: Rebecca Traister, Part 1
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-203-rebecca-traister-part-1/id1490354763?i=1000530362951
The "This American Life" episode on Don Hazen:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/640/transcript
Five Women Are Accusing A Top Left-Leaning Media Executive Of Sexually Harassing Them
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/coralewis/don-hazen
Rebecca Traister: Inside Andrew Cuomo's Toxic Workplace
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-cuomo-misconduct-allegations.html
Rebecca's Books:
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781501181818
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781476716572
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781439150290
Music in the episode:
"If I Ruled The World" - MILCK
https://youtu.be/NhHKRvv4JfU
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