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Show Notes:
Host Julia Washington announces Season 4!
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Transcript:
For season four of pop culture makes me jealous. We're going to be analyzing the representation of wealthy women in media from characters like Sex in the City, Bridgeton, American crime story, the impeachment story. We are going to be getting into all kinds of interesting topics. My guests and I will first discuss what we believe to be true about women and money and how that has influenced our beliefs in adulthood.
You will not want to miss this season. And now here's a little taste of what you'll be getting in season four.
I think that my first actual impressions of what a wealthy woman was was like from the eighties. So we're talking like big hair, like soap operas. Yeah. You know, lots of affairs, ladies who lunch you. You know, it wasn't until like designing women and Murphy Brown that I just saw, like working like women who work for their money and who really enjoy it and are like good at their job.
And, but yeah, I just, it's all about hairspray for wealthy women. Yeah.
I have like one voice with my father who is always kind of like people with a lot of money have no souls. Mm. Like that's, you know, he still kind of thinks that. And there's, I'm always a bit conflicted, but like, me personally, I don't think I was in a place at a young age to like understand that or really care, you know, I was like, in such a visual person, I'm like, they're so pretty.
There, you know, and, and especially in the eighties, there was like very specific rich people. Things like, I feel like everybody in the eighties always had a French twist. Mm. I remember signifiers. I'm a child of the eighties and nineties, like fur coats, gold jewelry, mansions, mansion with a pool, house, pool.
Um, like basically Ivanka.
Hillary. Sure. You're gonna cater her. She's coming out unscathed. She's running for the New York Senate. She's gonna probably be okay because she has wealth and power. Yeah. Paula just needs a dime to get by and everyone's turned on her, especially now that they found out she's gonna post rep Penthouse house.
I think I realized that wealth gaps existed. You know, like my third grade friend. An American girl doll in the bed and the wardrobe and the outfits and all the things. So like I understood it, but I also didn't have, it felt more factual versus judgemental in a more subtle way. I think like this movie just kind of reinforced that it's like not okay to be a frivolous, vain woman, or as a woman, it's not okay to be frivolous.
Concerned with your appearance because then you'll be not taken seriously and won't be, have the follow through to accomplish anything.
I think the thing that's easy to forget about Charlotte's story on the surface is how short of a time that we as women have had. Yeah. To vote to have a bank account in our own name and not our, and our husband's and or fathers, um, own property. Mm-hmm. . So for a long time, most of history, the option for your own upward mobility and that of your family was to marry up financially.
Yeah. Like that needed to be the goal to help you. Your whole immediate family survived. Um, and sometimes like survive. Yeah. Um, I mean, little women is the prime example because Meg, if Meg doesn't marry well, what does that mean for the rest of the family? Exactly. She's setting the precedent for everybody else.
That was the voices of Libby Sailor, Natalie Catona, Carly, Adam. And Deborah from, Its my screen time too, giving you a small taste of what we're gonna see in season four, dropping October 12th.
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