Epstein, the Manosphere, and the Erasure of Women w/ Lauren Leader
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Tara Palmeri and Lauren Leader discuss the challenges women face in politics and the impact of the manosphere on narratives surrounding the Epstein case.
Lauren Leader — co-founder of All In Together and one of the leading voices on women in politics — joins Tara to talk about the pattern no one in Washington wants to name: every woman in Trump's cabinet is being pushed out. From Pam Bondi to Kristi Noem to Tulsi Gabbard to Linda McMahon, the firings keep coming — and Lauren explains why this is textbook "glass cliff" politics. They go deep on the manosphere's hijacking of the Epstein story, why victim testimony from women is treated as hearsay, the Victoria's Secret–Wexner–Epstein pipeline that sexualized an entire generation of girls, Joe Rogan's 11% female guest rate, Michael Wolff's Epstein ties, and why the U.S. ranks 43rd in the world for gender parity. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code TARA at https://www.oneskin.co/TARA #oneskinpod #ad 0:00 – Intro: Every woman in Trump's cabinet is getting fired 2:13 – The glass cliff: women handed impossible jobs, then blamed when they fail 7:34 – Pam Bondi was a lapdog who still got fired 10:32 – The manosphere hijacks the Epstein narrative — Rogan, Fridman, all-male panels 14:30 – Joe Rogan: only 11% of his guests are women — and it shows 21:49 – "Not one of them has been fired — they…
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