Dire Straights

A feminist podcast critiquing heterosexual love, sex, politics, and culture. www.direstraightspod.com

Dire Straights is a society podcast hosted by Tracy Clark-Flory & Amanda Montei, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Tracy Clark-Flory & Amanda Montei hosts Dire Straights, a society show with 31 episodes published.

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  Are feminists "anti-family"?

  May 27, 202657 minS0

  <p>Today we’re digging into an age-old question along the lines of has feminism ruined the workplace? and has feminism pushed men into the manosphere? and did feminism get Trump elected?</p><p>We gathered a roundtable of people who are pro-marriage and anti-divorce who don’t believe women should have any rights. We’re calling this conversation, Did feminism ruin the family?</p><p>JK. More seriously, this episode asks whether feminists and progressives today are “anti-family.” We talk about the trap of that framing, and why being against the nuclear family is good, actually. We look at the origin...

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  The sexual awakening that ends a marriage

  May 13, 202625 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com<br/><br/><p>Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live.</p><p>This week, Tracy was joined by a special guest: Myisha Battle, a feminist sex and dating coach, and author of the newly released book Sexual Pleasure for Dummies. It’s an inclusive, empathetic, and nuanced look at the role pleasure plays in our lives—and all the things that get in the way of it.</p><p>You might remember Myisha from the Dire Straights IRL event that we did last...

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  They sent my mom away to become a good wife

  Apr 29, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>Tracy’s newest book, My Mother’s Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family’s Fractured Past, is out May 5th! It’s a memoir about how a DNA test connected Tracy with her sister Kathy, who her mom placed for adoption at a home for unwed mothers in the sixties. She set out to understand their mom’s past and stumbled on a bigger story about shame, family secrets, race, and the control of women’s bodies.</p><p>In this episode, we have a behind-the-scenes chat about her memoir, including the story of how Tracy decided to take that DNA tes...

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  Why is feminism being blamed for everything?

  Apr 15, 202632 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.direstraightspod.com<br/><br/><p>It’s not just the manosphere, MAGA, TERFs, or reactionary feminists who are hating on “2010s feminism” right now. Increasingly, liberals and centrists are getting in on the action.</p><p>This growing feminist backlash claims that feminism has gone too far. That women have been made unhappy by progressive propaganda. That they’re being strong-armed into polyamory, casual sex, education, careerism, single-motherhood, and childlessness.</p><p>Meanwhile, as we discussed in a past episode, the Heritage Foundation is trying to use laws...

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  Jeffrey Epstein, Les Wexner, and the 90s mall

  Apr 1, 20261h 20mS0

  <p>Remember the 90s? The Spice Girls were singing about girl power, and Britney Spears was asking someone to hit her one more time. Amanda was shopping at the Limited Too at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, while Tracy was sporting her Bebe shirt at a Bay Area mall, and possibly almost getting sex trafficked.</p><p>Behind the scenes, Les Wexner was cooking up the Victoria’s Secret Angels campaign, soon to be followed by the company's teen PINK-stamped butt line, while his buddy Jeffrey Epstein was allegedly posing as a VS scout to lure girls and women for abuse.</p>...

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