UK Censorship, Problematic Millennial Feminism & The Drama

From Everything Is Content by Beth, Ruchira & Oenone

April 10, 2026 · 1h 24m · Season 2 · Episode 151

About this episode

The episode discusses UK censorship in schools, critiques of millennial feminism from Gen Z, and reviews the film 'The Drama'.

Helllo friends! Welcome to the EIChapel! This week we're making a vow to you all to cover interesting stories, dive deep into the discourse and share yet another bouquet of excellent recommendations. First up we're discussing a pretty grim story out of Manchester, after a school librarian revealed she had been asked to remove a host of book titles from her shelves. These books included Heartstopper, The Da Vinci Code, 1984, We Should All Be Feminists and Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates. We discuss the importance of reading beyond your age group and why we think these decisions fail children rather than protect them. Secondly we're untangling some thorny feminist internet discourse, after one Gen Z account accused millennial feminism of being sex-obsessed, shallow and misguided. They wrote "Gen Z is kinda clocking millennial/Gen X feminists tea. Y’all said/say men are trash but then advocate for having casual sex with many of them and partaking in kinks that may be harmful. It never made sense." We unpack this idea and interrogate the feminist messaging that we grew up with and whether our attitudes to sex really have been harmful to younger generations. And finally- Kristoffer…

People in this episode

Hosts: Beth, Ruchira, Oenone

Topics covered

UK censorship
millennial feminism
Gen Z perspectives
literature
feminist discourse
film analysis

Keywords

censorship
feminism
Gen Z
millennials
literature
film
cultural discourse

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Heartstopper, The Da Vinci Code, 1984, We Should All Be Feminists, Men Who Hate Women