25 April 2019
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Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic, Meeting Triumph and Disaster) and Phoebe Maltz Bovy (The Perils of "Privilege", What Would Phoebe Do?, The New Republic)
On Friedersdorf, Conor and Phoebe discuss the plague of parental oversharing. What kind of privacy is owed to celebrities like Justin Bieber? Phoebe describes traveling to Japan, where it was impossible for her to “pass” as a native. Moving to the Isla Vista shooting, Conor argues that the media should deny notoriety to mass shooters. Phoebe complicates the narrative around #YesAllWomen, and wonders whether “rape culture” is a useful term. Conor and Phoebe critique the idea of “checking your privilege”—is this just a way for insanely privileged people to nitpick each others’ lives? Plus: Why Conor is accused of privilege when he criticizes drone warfare.
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Conor Friedersdorf
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Molly Ringwald’s story on This American Life
Phoebe on parental oversharing
AP story on Justin Bieber’s racial slur video
WaPo posts video of Obama exercising
Phoebe’s posts on travelling in Japan
Conor on preventing mass killers from becoming famous
Conor on #YesAllWomen
Phoebe on the Isla Vista killer
Phoebe on women who are refused
Nerve.com piece, “Confessions of an Awkward Teen Girl”
Phoebe on checking your privilege
Miss Self-Important on privilege
Peggy McIntosh’s 1989 essay, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” (PDF)
Jamelle Bouie on privilege
Conor on privilege at Harvard’s Kennedy School
Friedersdorf | Jun 9, 2014 | Conor Friedersdorf & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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