2 Dope Queens Ep 8 "Dude For a Day"

  I listened to #8 Dude For a Day- 2 Dope Queens; they had three guest speakers Ashley Brooke Roberts, Kevin Allison, and Baratunde Thurston. I found this episode very interesting and funny. I enjoyed how it wasn't just one long talk, instead it had multiple parts and stories.
  It started off with Phoebe talking about how she made a Tinder recently, and the men on it kept asking her the same question. They would ask if she was either Caribbean or American because she is African American. They seemed to lose interest when she said she was American instead of Caribbean. I find that rude because these men were judging her on her ethnicity. It is as if they think Caribbean women are better than American women. They didn't even take the time to get to know her, but instead immediately judged her. However, it is Tinder and it is a degrading app that is used mainly for hooking up. It just seems wild to me that people are so quick to dismiss someone because of their ethnicity.
  I also enjoyed Ashley Brooke Roberts skits because she talks about a man calling her unattractive for smoking, and she automatically felt the need to justify herself. She then speaks of how the things that men find sexy are things that are unreasonable. They want women to wear corsets and stilettos. These are both beautiful things, but they are restricting. She says that men want women to wear things that limit their movement. It seems like that is a common theme that men want women to shrink and take up less space. She says that men feel that women are like communal farmland because they all feel like they need to give their opinion on us and try to take part in our lives.
  Another part was when Phoebe and Jessica talk about being men for a day. One says that if she were to be a man that she would do the basic things like pee standing up, masturbate, and just do normal daily things for a guy. However, the other one went as far as to say that she would sleep around, be a jerk, and just abuse her new found male privilege. She wants to know what it feels like to not have any rules or fear that she will be judged the same way a woman would be if she were that promiscuous. She does it in a joking way, which I think is very clever because some people would get offended by hearing her say this. They could call her a man hater or another angry feminist.
  I really enjoyed this podcast. It was funny and talked about many different things. I would totally listen to another episode after hearing this one.