In Bed With The Right - Trailer!

Speaker 1 Hello and welcome. I'm Adrian Dobb.

Speaker 2 And I'm Moira Donegan.

Speaker 1 And whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.

Speaker 2 This is our podcast about sex and gender in the conservative imagination.

Speaker 1 In the coming weeks, we'll be looking at various thinkers and various ideas that have informed public discourse around sexuality, gender, and sex to a much greater degree than we might like to think.

Speaker 2 Arguments, controversies, the most intimate parts of our identities and lives, and also the center of our politics.

Speaker 1 And we should say this is going to be kind of an intellectual podcast.

Speaker 1 There's that really famous line, Altrolling line, right, like about conservatism being basically a bunch of irritable gestures striving to resemble ideas.

Speaker 1 We're going to kind of grant that these are ideas and that they are traceable and that they're formative to look at, even if we don't really agree with them.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I think it's so important to do this right now because conservative ideas about sex and gender have really moved to the forefront of the American national conversation.

Speaker 2 You know, we came to this in the wake of the Dobbs decision, rolling back the national right to an abortion.

Speaker 2 We come as there's a huge wave of anti-trans legislation and sentiment attacking everybody, especially the very young.

Speaker 2 And we're coming as there's like renewed attacks on birth control, divorce rights, and a huge backlash to Me Too.

Speaker 1 What we've been finding as we've been reading for and then recording these episodes is that time is a flat circle. You know, the Supreme Court is is basically revisiting gay rights this week.

Speaker 1 This is a thing that feels very 2013. It feels like we were done with it, right? That's part of what we want to investigate here.

Speaker 1 Like, what happens to ideas that the mainstream thinks that they're done with, but really may be anything but.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the thing about conservative ideas about sex and gender is that they're always just under the surface of a lot of our debates. And they come back zombie-like every couple years.

Speaker 2 And, you know, learning this history, I think, will help us sort of understand how and why we are doomed to repeat it.

Speaker 1 I hope you enjoy it.