Maia Poet: The Final Boss of Detrans Grifters (with Kat Blaque)
Fri, 04 Apr 2025
What does “gender ideology” have in common with ISIS? Well, they are both… things, arguably. A...
Gwen Stefani: From Feminist to Fascist
Fri, 21 Mar 2025
When Gwen Stefani made a tacit endorsement of Tucker Carlson earlier this month, I felt like somebod...
The Complex Tragedy of Grimes
Fri, 07 Mar 2025
To the mainstream news, she’s the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children. To a certain type of ...
The Incoherent Sexual Politics of the Right
Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Elon Musk just (allegedly) had his thirteenth child with a fourth woman — a 26-year-old “conserv...
How Conservatism Infiltrated Pop Culture
Fri, 07 Feb 2025
Quiet luxury. Clean girl. Old money. Trad living. Kylie Jenner’s pivot from Black culture vulture ...
The Tech Bro-ligarchy
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who were cast out as nerds in college so...
Blake Lively and the Amber Heard Effect
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
The first episode of this podcast ever recorded was about Amber Heard and the online public’s inab...
Why is the Media Coverage of Luigi Mangione So Bad?
Thu, 19 Dec 2024
The remarkable dissonance between the public’s embrace of UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mang...
How Did Elon Musk Get Like This?
Fri, 13 Dec 2024
There was a time before Elon Musk was tweeting 60 times a day about trans people and the woke mind v...
Is Glinda Good?
Thu, 28 Nov 2024
A Bit Fruity was due for a good old-fashioned film analysis. Wicked is a kids movie that is actually...
How the Right is Winning Young Men (with Taylor Lorenz)
Fri, 15 Nov 2024
This was the first election where the online far-right radicalization of young boys and men revealed...
Riley Gaines: Tie for 5th, Grift for Life
Wed, 30 Oct 2024
In America, the only thing standing between you and wealth beyond your wildest dreams is tying for f...
Jubilee Must Be Stopped
Thu, 10 Oct 2024
The slogan of YouTube’s most popular debate channel, Jubilee, is “provoke understanding & create...
The Cult of Stan Culture (with Amanda Montell)
Thu, 26 Sep 2024
Well, I got Swiftied. As I sat there, sifting through ever more creative and graphic death threats, ...
Chappell Roan’s War on Fame (with Eliza McLamb)
Thu, 12 Sep 2024
H-O-T-T-O-G-O, Chappell Roan is someone we do not actually know. But what do we do with the (very re...
The Crunchy to Far Right Pipeline
Wed, 28 Aug 2024
How does a harmless interest in yoga turn into a crusade against homosexuals in public schools? Spec...
Transvestigating (with Contrapoints)
Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Your gender is not determined by your anatomy, your chromosomes, your hormones, or even your interna...
The Kamalafication of BRAT
Thu, 01 Aug 2024
Is Kamala bumpin’ that? Is BRAT summer over? Who killed it? Today, Maia of Rehash and I attempt a ...
Hawk Tuah: From Harmless Meme to Right Wing Symbol
Wed, 17 Jul 2024
I stay away from heterosexual mess, but this time it came to me. Today, Taylor Lorenz and I work bac...
Stories from the AIDS Crisis
Wed, 03 Jul 2024
A special episode where we hear from listeners of the show who were lovers, nurses, relatives, stude...
The Celebrity Ozempidemic (with Aubrey Gordon)
Thu, 20 Jun 2024
A drug that needs no introduction and a culture of fatphobia that lives on. Today, we are ALL beatin...
Oli London & the Right Wing Grift (with Taylor Lorenz)
Wed, 05 Jun 2024
How does a white gay guy from England go from “trans-Korean” troll to a member of the conservati...
Amy Schumer & the Plague of White Feminism (with Broey Deschanel)
Tue, 21 May 2024
Girlbossing too close to the sun can cause a real trainwreck. Today, we examine the unstable foundat...
Everything the Media is Getting Wrong About the College Protests
Thu, 09 May 2024
Until a month ago, college students in America were dweeby snowflake liberals, too socially anxious ...
Annoying Gays are Not the Problem
Wed, 24 Apr 2024
Autistic nonbinary TikTokers. Loud, flamboyant gay men. The twink who filmed himself having sex in t...
Drake Bell and the Cycle of Abuse
Tue, 09 Apr 2024
The new docu-series “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” is shedding light on the abuse that...
J.K. Rowling’s Spiral into Madness (with ContraPoints)
Tue, 26 Mar 2024
From “sex is real” to Holocaust denial — if it happened to the wizard lady, it can happen to y...
How Love, Simon’s Author was Pushed Out of the Closet
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
In 2018, I called “Love, Simon” a “gay movie made by a straight woman for straight people.” ...
Conservatives Don’t Care About Your Kids
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
A rant. Support me on Patreon! Learn more about Trans Lifeline. Big thanks to Rocket Money for spo...
The 100-Year-Old Myth of Gays “Coming for Your Children”
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
I get called a “groomer” on Twitter every day — which is weird, because I want nothing to do w...
Surviving AIDS in the 80s
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
Peter Staley was a 24-year-old, closeted finance guy when he was diagnosed with HIV. Having been han...
The Political Power of Taylor Swift
Tue, 16 Jan 2024
Taylor Swift has the power to swing the presidential election. What if nothing else matters? Support...
Bud Light and the End of Rainbow Marketing, For Now
Tue, 02 Jan 2024
How the manufactured hysteria over a single can of beer brought an end to the golden age of rainbow ...
George Santos is a Terrible Person and the Embodiment of the American Dream
Wed, 20 Dec 2023
Is there valor in scamming your way through a system that failed you, even if you hurt people along ...
The Detransitioner Panic
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
99% of people who transition continue identifying as transgender for the rest of their lives. The ve...
Queer Palestinians & The Power of Pinkwashing
Tue, 21 Nov 2023
Are “Queers for Palestine” really like “Chickens for KFC”? No, but understanding intersectio...
Christian Indoctrination in Homeschooling
Tue, 07 Nov 2023
The number of kids being homeschooled today is more than double of what it was four years ago, and n...
Libs of TikTok
Tue, 24 Oct 2023
At the forefront of today’s anti-LGBTQ movement is one shockingly uncharismatic woman. Journalist ...
The Mom Who Invented Gender Reveals Regrets It
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
In 2008, Jenna Karvunidis was looking for ways to involve her distant mother in the life of her soon...
Becoming a Woman (with Miss Benny)
Tue, 03 Oct 2023
Like many people, sitting still and staring at the wall during the early days of the pandemic brough...
Amber Heard & The Myth of the Perfect Victim
Tue, 26 Sep 2023
One year later, we revisit the trial that metastasized through society, leaving a culture of brutal ...
LGBT Conservatives
Tue, 19 Sep 2023
LGBT conservatives: Why? How? Where did they come from? What can we learn from them, and how can we ...
Introducing: A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein
Thu, 22 Jun 2023
A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein is coming soon! I'm so happy you're here. Subscribe everywhere podc...