Kat and Phoebe discuss the pros and cons of the downstairs loo, the rise and fall of the momfluencer, and whether society will ever flush itself of the ritual privilege check.
Right, I'm gonna be that guy: Kat is getting her Buñuel movies mixed up - that scene with the toilets at the dinner table is from The Phantom of Liberty (1974), not The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).
I work at a community college, and of course there's quite a lot of equity ritual around. To my mind the money that goes into the rituals would be much better spent on actual resources for students but nobody asked my opinion. A few years ago, our area experienced a massive wildfire that destroyed most of an entire town. And about 18 months after that, I was in a room with the woman who runs the equity department. She is quite nice, and she lost her home and everything she had in the fire. And she stood there and got kind of teary as she described how even when she lost everything she knew she was so privileged compared to so many others. I wanted to give her a hug and tell her it was okay to just... be sad that she lost her home! That was a big deal!
My mom's house in England has a downstairs loo, but it's very old and used to be an outhouse when most houses had outside toilets 90/100 years ago. When the house's ground floor was extended, instead of demolishing it, the builders engulfed it as a part of the extension. It's very charming with an overhead cistern and a chain! I told my mom to never change it to anything modern!
Right, I'm gonna be that guy: Kat is getting her Buñuel movies mixed up - that scene with the toilets at the dinner table is from The Phantom of Liberty (1974), not The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).
I'm mortified and will issue a tearful correction/apology on the next podcast!
I work at a community college, and of course there's quite a lot of equity ritual around. To my mind the money that goes into the rituals would be much better spent on actual resources for students but nobody asked my opinion. A few years ago, our area experienced a massive wildfire that destroyed most of an entire town. And about 18 months after that, I was in a room with the woman who runs the equity department. She is quite nice, and she lost her home and everything she had in the fire. And she stood there and got kind of teary as she described how even when she lost everything she knew she was so privileged compared to so many others. I wanted to give her a hug and tell her it was okay to just... be sad that she lost her home! That was a big deal!
Canape, canna pee?
I hereby proclaim Phoebe and Kat honorary Dad's for that "Dad joke" ; )
Not one can of peas mentioned. Unforgivable missed opportunity..
In the show notes anyway. Ok I have to listen now
My mom's house in England has a downstairs loo, but it's very old and used to be an outhouse when most houses had outside toilets 90/100 years ago. When the house's ground floor was extended, instead of demolishing it, the builders engulfed it as a part of the extension. It's very charming with an overhead cistern and a chain! I told my mom to never change it to anything modern!
I can't picture this at all but am obsessed.
The great thing about overhead cisterns is that they flush with incredible velocity, so blocking is rare!
The trouble is when they break and don't stop flushing.... ask me how I know... 😵💫
The comments about privilege checking near the end of the episode made me think of this December 2020 New Yorker piece by Lauren Michele Jackson:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/kim-kardashian-and-the-year-of-unchecked-privilege-checking