Amelia Lester

Athletics carnivals, I generally said that I have my period.

Yeah.

Regardless of whether, see, that's another thing I used to do in high school.

I was probably a bit of a delinquent, but I never wanted to do PE.

I always had my period.

I've tried saying on this podcast, like, I can't do it because I have my period.

And producer Ruth is unimpressed.

She's like, everyone has their period.

She kind of was the feminist writer for millennials.

She peaked in sort of the early 2010s.

She wrote for a website called Jezebel that was very famous for its feminist hot takes.

She was very active on Twitter.

She had this movement called hashtag shout your abortion because it was back when we thought that if you put a hashtag in front of a phrase, it makes it cooler.

And then she wrote like really kind of edgy, very controversial at the time takes that kind of pushed feminism forward.

So she used to have a column called Hello, I Am Fat because she was known for her body positivity.

She wrote this essay called How to Make a Rape Joke, where she basically called out the misogyny that was so rampant in standup comedy that no one kind of realized until the 2010s.

And she was very much peak millennial feminism.

And Shrill very much kind of ended with the happy ending of them together and married.

Yeah.

Well, and also we should mention that that 2022 video that is online where they come out as a throuple, I think it's safe to say it made a lot of people uncomfortable, not just conservatives.