Red Scare - Thiel it to the Judge *TEASER*

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

The ladies discuss Zohran Mamdani's primary win, the Lauren Sanchez/Jeff Bezos wedding, Peter Thiel's Ross Douthat interview, and Jia Tolentino on why Zoomers aren't having sex.

Yeah men like men are slapping Chicks they made on tinder because they think the chicks want on it The chicks are think the men want yeah, no one actually like some people want it Well, she's right maybe in theory but not in practice that it's one of the few things It's still left where you can truly like lose yourself and yeah, forget about the rest of the world Idea but the rest of the world, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a nice thought. It is a humane idea, but the other book that she talks about, yeah, it gets into a kind of like BDSM style arrangements that people have.

That's, you know, we've always said on this show, could be one of the least sexy things you can do is have like contractual, weird, kinky sex. Yeah, because it's about like tediously negotiating rules versus actually doing the real thing. She says, almost nothing is perfectly knowable about sex. Almost no act is always thrilling or always unpleasant.

Almost everything depends on context and context can always change. I mean, yeah, that's correct in a nutshell. I never thought I would get such a thoughtful and humane passage out of Gia Tolentino, who's like a pretty decent writer, it goes down easy. She is, but she's always kind of like hedging and caveating in a way that I find- The insights are mid and she's always kind of like hedging and caveatting in a way that I find.

The insights are mid and she's too much of a coward to take a real position. She's just kind of like saying stuff in like a kind of thoughtful tone. Yeah. And it doesn't really like hit the way that like, Didion or like a Mary Gates skill. Yes, because she's unwilling to go there.

And that's why she had her brain broken by the internet. Because she stands for nothing and cares too much about what other people think. Yeah. And she admits his son. Yeah, and she says, "'Perry's book is less a guide than a warning. "'It's important she cautions readers to remember that, "'almost all men can kill She admits his son. Yeah, and she says Perry's book is less a guide than a warning.

It's important she cautions readers to remember that quote, almost all men can kill almost all women with their bare hands, but not vice versa. Daddy's chill. Yeah. And this is like, you know, an insight that Perry frames is like dangerous and disturbing, but it's actually just the turn on it's like the core.

That's why we have sex with men because they have the essence of the heterosexual power dynamic. Like you're turned on by the man because you know he can kill you but has chosen instead to be tender. I said this in like 2018 or 2019 when the pod first started. Oh my God. That's like, I know. It's like when, when, you know, Andrea Dworkin says like all heterosexual sex is rape. Yes, she's kind of Directionally correct and spiritually correct But she's saying that's a bad thing. I'm saying that's a good thing No, it's true. That's what we like about men is that they could kill and crush us.

If they couldn't, there would be almost nothing to like about them. Why would you have sex with them if you didn't think they could kill you.