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Help us come up with our next few episodes! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-04-21 16:20:49
Edited:
2025-04-21 16:21:21
Imported:
2026-09

Poll

Help us come up with our next few episodes!

  • The Roman Empire in the conservative imagination 214
  • J.K. Rowling 152
  • The Moonies 22
  • Joseph de Maistre 13
  • Things "they" no longer teach in college 63
  • The Enlightenment in the reactionary imagination 78
  • "What do you call this act?" "The Trustees" 3
  • The Twilight Saga 46
  • The Discipline of Psychology vs. the Gays 76
  • 2025-04-21
  • 667 votes
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Content

Your intrepid hosts met up at San Francisco's Dolores Park to observe the annual Hunky Jesus Contest ... and to brainstorm new episodes! We have a lot of ideas -- reality being what it is --, but we are unsure what order to tackle them in! So we thought it might be time for another IBWTR patron poll! All of these eps will almost certainly happen at some point, but this will give us a little more of a sense what to research and record first! Thanks so much, y'all!

Comments

Cuddlefisch

thank you for helping to maintain my sanity for the last six months while this trans PhD student has been writing their thesis 😹

Karen Cox

I voted for ‘the Enlightenment’ one but I also endorse the Roman Empire one as well. I still want to hear y’all discuss the feminization of expertise.

Corrie Potter

It's a tossup between the Romans and the Enlightenment for me

Belle

The whole “they should have taught us this in high school/college!” both infuriates and fascinates me so much. I would love if y'all did a break down of what education was like in the past and what we actually learned back then compared to now. Especially when it comes to women, since so often this is centered around housework (like sowing, ironing, budgeting etc).

Nina V~

so many good choices! i did vote for "things 'they' no longer teach in college," bc that seems quite relevant now, unfortunately

Allen

Voted for the Moonies but I’d be happy with any/all of these!

Milo Brown

I know you guys focus most of your episodes on american gender conservatism but i’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the recent UK supreme court ruling

Paul Crider

I selected the Enlightenment item, but I think the Roman imagination option is also really good. But I'm behind! Haven't listened to the most recent episode yet!

alex

i feel like jk rowling and twilight have been well-covered by various youtube luminaries, so while i'm sure your eps would be great on them, it seems this is a good chance to cover less-trod material

Steff

I choose the Enlightenment episode, but at some point it I'd really be interested if you could do an episode looking at the intersections of Camp and Fascism. Susan Sontag wrote a little on this subject, but I haven't found much more. It feels like we're living in a time where camp masculinity and performance have become the de facto style.

Louise Duke

I voted for Rowling bc I really want to hear your takes on her psychology and her origin story (single mother, DV, fairytales about poverty etc)

jacq

roman empire + talk about that one viral clip of mary beard making fun of people for not actually understanding the roman empire

WGM

I need Adrian and Moira's Foucault takes

Glukeose

Became a Patron today because my wife and I just started watching Temptation Island on Netflix and it is absolutely perfect fodder for this podcast to dissect. The Netflix landscape of dating shows is an incredible flashbulb of gender politics.

William Knight

Rooting for the Enlightenment as someone who has been angry online at people supporting ‘enlightenment values’ since I first encountered them on message boards 20 years ago.

Laura H Harris

If you need a guest for the Roman Empire one, Curtis Dozier from Vassar would be terrific. He runs the Pharos Project which looks at extremist right wing groups’ use of the ancient world. I’d also love an episode on Freud and modern use of Freud!

Richard Marshall

Yes! People like Steven Pinker who aren't either philosophers or historians but use the phrase "enlightenment values " as a shorthand for whatever he happens to think in any given moment!

Lara Ruffolo

Dollars to donuts the conservatives don't talk about the aqueducts or roads - INFRASTRUCTURE! But they seem to have the circus part right.

William Knight

That said also I would love a take on Leo Strauss in his German context.

West

Anybody/Anything but Joanne K. R.

James Talley

Me over in the corner rooting for de Maistre, my shy hand peeking up...but I'll faithfully listen to them all!

Ellen

Yes. I am so tired of hearing about her.

Aviva Werner

Not on the list, but would like to throw out that Theweliet's Male Fantasies episode Adrian keeps saying y'all need to do

Cam

Please please please do the discipline of psychology vs. the gays! The APA hosted members only town halls in support of their accreditation board caving to the Trump administration in removing DEI, and part of how leadership justified this was using the example of how he APA was such a staunch advocate for the depathologization of homosexuality. They also maintained that (and I’m paraphrasing) the APA is nonpartisan because we only answer to the science. Which is never political, clearly 😒

Jess

I wish I could vote for multi! Definitely most interested in both the Enlightenment and Roman Empire takes!

Momo F. Black

I would be really interested in hearing about the Moonies (so many fascinating topics that intersect with it -- assassination of Shinzo Abe being one of them, albeit not directly gender related).

WGM

Issuing a correction to my previous comment, I thought that said "discipline and punish, vs the gays" and I found that provocative

Maureen McCord

Hi, I'm an academic (at least for now) and I would like to not have to think about reactionaries and the enlightenment MORE and AGAIN. Thank you.

Hamilton L. Norwich

Discipline of psychology vs. the gays is a close second for me. Where's our ranked-choice voting??

Lindsey Schilling

Voted for things they no longer teach in college in honor of my private liberal arts college’s dissolution this month. Apparently you can throw your environmental studies endowment at failing school sports for a limited period of time before the sh*t hits the fan.

Rae Gray

PLEASE JK ROWLING LMAO I also think it'd be good to cover psych and homosexuality (and transsexuality?)

Alice Kron

Joseph de Maistre please! Your episodes about strange European conservatives are my favorites.

Karen

You can do psychology / psychiatry versus trans and have Avgi S and Anne P (authors of Gender Without Identity) join the show.

Thomas Freeman

Fyi I imagine that Roman Empire might be artificially high, because people thought they could vote for multiple options and/or couldn’t change their votes

Thomas Freeman

I love it when this podcast covers less trodden ground, so I vote for the moonies and Maistre

M

If you guys cover Joanne, it would be really interesting if you also unpacked the wild political and gender dynamics in her books, especially in her Robert Galbraith detective series. I cannot say enough about what a cornucopia of insights into her fucked up psyche those books are, and I think you guys would also find it very, very interesting. Maybe especially the 3rd or 6th books in the series. This is something I haven’t heard a lot of people talk about, because the very people who might have some insights are the people who don’t want to buy her books, understandably. But I know her books are not quick reads by any means, so it might be too big an ask.

Heatherrrr

Would love your thoughts on imagined Rome - specifically Saul/St Paul! Ultimate granddaddy of indigenous appropriation and marketing.

kathleen

I think I know your college and I'm sorry ❤️ If I'm right, my little liberal arts college alma mater inherited one of your athletic programs and while I'm happy they have somewhere to go, I'm concerned it's big ask for us to support. The whole mess makes me sad. I love small colleges.

Charley

As a Brit who’s disgusted by our recent Supreme Court decision on “biological sex” (🙄) I’d love to hear your informed views on Joanne & all her so-called “women’s rights” activists (e.g. my sister in law).

Charley

Christos Tsiolkas reimagines Paul as a complicated gay man in the novel “Damascus” - it manages fo show the full awfulness of Paul & the strangeness of early Christians, while also making him very human to the reader.

Heatherrrr

Oh yeah this looks similar to one by a NZ author called "My Name was Judas".

Lindsey Schilling

Thank you. Northland shaped who I am in so many ways, and is a major artery in that little Lake Superior community. It’s really a crushing blow to so many people.

pixlaw

I know I'm late to this conversation, but I'm really hoping that either you guys and/or If Books Could Kill and/or Know Your Enemy finally address the infernal voice which has been plaguing my brain for decades: Camille Paglia. She was everywhere 20 years ago, and her semi-contrarian/semi-loony takes on gender politics really seemed to meet some Big News need for "feminist" hot takes on why women weren't really as oppressed as they thought. She gets bonus points as Conor Friedersdorf wrote her up in the Atlantic 5 years ago as being a victim of cancel culture, because, notwithstanding the fact that she identifies as transgender, she criticized the "current transgender wave."

Ameli Qvist-Allen

Yes! I voted for this too. I can't really learn that much more about Joanne, but Joseph de Maistre!! Gimme that knowledge.

Anna O'Halloran-Johnson

If you do JK Rowling, you must have Natalie from Contrapoints on or I will be heartbroken.