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Lucy Worsley - Ladykillers

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Feckedupbundle · 16/01/2024 13:45

I listen to this podcast whilst I'm working. It's not heavyweight,but entertaining and passes the time.
All of the cases are commented on by professionals either working in the fields associated,or members of the communities affected. For instance,the episode about the death of an indigenous child in Australia,had a member of the modern day community explaining what had and hadn't changed in the intervening years,and the effect that more recent government policies was having. It was really interesting,and have me a lot to think about.
One of the other episodes was about a very young lesbian couple,in the southern US at the end of the 19th century. There were two lesbian commentators and a bit of talk about how historically and contemporarily,lesbians are not given the cultural exposure that they merit. Excellent,thought I,about time this was mentioned.
One of the commentators started talking about who gets to use what bathroom,and the ban on drag queens in public places. Then we get another person popping up. Yes,you guessed it,on a programme bemoaning the visibility of lesbians,the person they chose to talk about their experience,is a drag queen. Quite what a man has to tell us about lesbian invisibility,I don't know,as I skipped forward until I got back to the historical discussion again.
Depressing,but I shouldn't have expected anything else really,as it's a BBC production,and I should have realised where it was going as soon as the word 'queer' started being used.

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Glamourreader · 16/01/2024 14:24

Yep I love all of Lucy Worsley's podcasts except for the 'queer' one. I skipped it as found it very offensive. Hoping it was just out of her hands.

RoyalCorgi · 16/01/2024 14:16

I had a similar experience listening to this. I can't remember the specifics, but it was related to prostitution, and one of the "experts" decided to hold forth about how it was important to decriminalise prostitution and how the Nordic model made things worse. It was horribly biased.

There was another one that was downright weird - it was a woman abortionist in Australia, who used to charge a lot of money for women to have abortions, and then a couple of them died and she was charged (on separate occasions) with murder. The "expert" they had on (who I think was the woman from The Guilty Feminist Podcast) said she saw the abortionist as a heroine who was providing a valuable service for women. (As opposed to what I thought, namely that she was a greedy woman preying on women at their most vulnerable and putting them in harm's way.)

SirChenjins · 16/01/2024 14:15

Thanks for highlighting this - I’ll give this mansplaining episode a miss. The other episodes that I’ve listened to are great, it’s a really good podcast from the fab Lucy.

Ikeameatballlunch · 16/01/2024 14:14

I'd complain as that's definitely not centring lesbians.

Dianaofthelakeofshiningwaters · 16/01/2024 14:09

Thanks for the heads up. I have listened to all the previous episodes and enjoyed them but will give this one a swerve.

Lottapianos · 16/01/2024 13:52

Very very disappointing. I love Lucy Worsley, shes great. I would imagine this was the decision of some trendy blue haired member of the production team, rather than anything to do with her

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