Welcome back to the podcast that’s basically just two spiraling women refusing to work on their enormous flaws while loudly calling out societal rot. 🧃💅

This week, Sarah and Erika dive deep into The Lolita Effect, the movie Thirteen, and the literal hellscape that is being a teenage girl under the male gaze. We discuss oversexualization, creepy casting choices, dress code double standards, and why 14-year-olds contour better than we ever will. 🫠👄✨

🔎 Topics we manage to tackle without screaming:

• The myth of the “mature” teenage girl
• How the media sexualizes young women and then blames them for it
• 14-year-olds being paired with 28-year-old actors (and why that's NOT okay)
• Brooke Shields, Britney Spears, and Hollywood’s gross history of “art”
• Foster care statistics that will make you want to throw your phone
• What we wish someone had told us before our own awkward teen years

Also featuring:

🧠 Unmedicated spirals

📚 Accidental trauma dumps

😤 Rants about high school dress codes

🐕 Daisy demanding attention mid-rage

& special author shoutouts to Anya Keeler and Zachariah Chamberlain!

Basically, it's one part feminist reckoning, one part sad girl summer preview, and 100% chaos we can’t clock out of. 🙃

👉 Rate, review, hydrate, and maybe ask your kids how they’re doing today.

Because pretending it’s fine only works until someone brings up 2004.

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Shoutout to KC-based indie author Anya Keeler, whose debut novel The Sound of Storms is queer, chaotic, plot-rich fantasy featuring double enemies-to-lovers, disability rep, and a generous splash of smut.

 anyakeeler.com

 Goodreads: The Sound of Storms

Fantasy should be inclusive, emotional, and a little bit unhinged. Just like this book.

Shoutout to author Zachariah Chamberlin, whose debut We Come Bearing Curses blends cosmic horror, addiction recovery, found family, and cult-driven apocalypse in a haunted Kansas City.

 zachariahchamberlain.com

Haunted men. Eldritch cults. And a Cane Corso named Lizzie Borden.

What more could you ask for?? 

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