Quick to criticise. Do you actually listen to this podcast? I do. They have women on and while I don't know all their date of birth, many are over 35 and all are clearly adult women with something interesting to say.
Yeah I do. And I've given them money. I've enjoyed many of their interviews (been watching since they had Kellie Jay Keen/ Posie Parker on, as have many people on here, I think).
Still frustrated that they don't have nearly as many women as men and that when they do, so often it's younger women chosen I suspect partly for their attractiveness as well as their opinions. I respect any woman who goes on their show just for turning up, as they must know what "bantz" (borderline abuse plus hilarious japes about their appearance/ if they're shaggable) they'll get from the livechat plus a few sniggers and winks from KK and FF afterwards. It's all in good fun ladies, don't be so touchy, where's your sense of humour? Oh and give us a smile, love.
I do respect KK and FF for some of the stuff they do - they've created an interesting, funny unique podcast with a diverse, amusing community. But they have a huge blind spot when it comes to sexism. I think KK is trying to ask some questions about this - he's asked several people about how men and women can get along together without just throwing insults at each other about sexism. I want to hear more about this. FF is just there for the bantz and trying to make up for the awkwardness he feels by deliberately being "edgy" (old-fashioned sexism done ironically, as in Nuts and Zoo magazines).
You are right, they do have older women on sometimes but not often compared to the amount of older men they have on. And especially on this subject. Watching this interview was like watching a double date. Shame the two women had such similar names as it made things confusing (even for KK). Woman on left in dress (Emma?) was annoyingly giggly and didn't make many good points. Lots of complaining about awful "feminists" with no explanation of what she meant by the word (has a lot of different applications). I had more respect for Ella (in black top) but often disagreed with her, although at least she made the point that the "6pm curfew for men" was meant as a pointed joke - so many people deliberately misunderstanding that. Getting two guests on doesn't work so well as each doesn't get long enough to explain their ideas. It all feels a bit like a pub chat rather than an interview. And of course the livechat was full of "phwoar, I would!" type comments which strangely their male guests don't seem to get nearly so much (apart from Douglas Murray!)
Anyway, I said I really wish they'd interview some more older women about sexism/ male violence because they could bring a lifetime of experience and professional research, including how sexism changes as you get older and/or have children. I didn't feel the two women had much experience to draw on or examples to give and it was a wasted opportunity to have a really important and relevant discussion. Felt a bit like a sop to the male half (three-quarters?) of the audience to get some "young fit birds" who will agree that feminism is awful and they love men - all a bit "cool girl". And if the biggest problem you have as a woman is driving restrictions in central London then I don't think you're really speaking for many other women out there...
I want some older women to talk seriously about online porn, the sex industry, surrogacy etc and to tell KK and FF a few things they don't know, as Posie did in her talk (which was fab!) Just really disappointed that this was a wasted opportunity as I want to hear more of these conversations. I also want them to get some men on who are doing useful work about male violence (Jackson Katz etc).
Didn't have time to say all this last night hence my snippy dismissal!