About this episode

Mary Hynes and Jennifer Hansen discuss various topics including feminism and personal empowerment in a comedic context.

What would PvI be with zero masculine energy? This episode features your usual co-host Mary Hynes and our frequent guest Jennifer Hansen ( philosopher at St. Lawrence University ). They have a one-on-one chat about being hot in a hostile world, interacting with AI, fighting with parrots, and they act out scenes involving the f*cks store and the actress who is too perfect. There is a lot of reclaiming one’s power and rejecting negativity and other things perhaps anathema to Mark’s sensibility, but you should tell us what YOU think. Image Note: This was a silly idea of Mark’s prior to the actual recording, which should perhaps better be called “Tall Poppies,” or something like that, but it seems a legit feminist point to make that a la “Ms. Pac-Man,” there’s a weird presumption that non-human cartoon characters are by default male, and that the female product thus must be indicated by the addition of a feminine-coded cosmetic element. Hear more PvI . Follow us at patreon.com/philosophyimprov to get an ad-free experience and post-game chatter for many episodes, now absolute free, or kick in a couple of bucks to get the remaining bonus…

People in this episode

Host: Mary Hynes

Guest: Jennifer Hansen

Topics covered

• feminism
• AI interaction
• personal empowerment
• improv comedy
• philosophy

Keywords

• feminism
• AI
• improv
• philosophy
• personal power
• comedy
• parrots

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: St. Lawrence University

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