The Names Women Get Stuck With

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Crazy, gold digger, bossy, high maintenance, dumb blonde, homewrecker, diva, witch, bitch, slut. Women have been called all of these things and plenty more for being too loud, too ambitious, too sexual, too angry, too independent, or simply too visible.

What The Podcast Investigates

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I'm Christina Rose, and this is Witches, Bitches and Sluts, a podcast that investigates the women who are labeled and why.

People Stories Vs System Stories

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Some episodes focus on the person, women whose lives and legacies were distorted by the name society gave them. Women like Marilyn Monroe, Anna Mae Wong, Hattie McDaniel, Marie Antoinette, and even Mary Magdalene. Other episodes focus on the system, episodes that trace where labels and stereotypes came from, how they spread, and why they are still so powerful. From the Dumb Blonde and the Femme Fatale to the Dragon Lady and the Jezebel, we look beyond the label to the history underneath it.

A Middle School Moment That Stuck

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So this subject is personal to me. When I was in middle school, my sister found me crying because the girls at school were talking about me. She said, Wow, you must be popular. And when I looked at her in shock, she explained, Well, they would only talk about you if they thought you were a threat. Her words stayed

Labels As Social Warnings

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with me. And years later, when I became a history teacher, I started noticing the same pattern everywhere. The women who attracted the harshest labels were often smart, powerful, outspoken, ambitious, complicated, or unwilling to stay in the place society had chosen for them. These labels were never just descriptions, they were warnings. They told women how to behave and told everyone else what happened when we did it.

Who Benefits From Reducing Women

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Witches, Bitches, and Sluts combines biography, history, pop culture, and research to ask a deceptively simple question. Who benefits when a woman is reduced to a label?

Who The Show Is For

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If you or someone you know has ever been called too much, or not enough, or something else you didn't choose, then this show is for

Where To Listen And Follow

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you. Listen to Witches, Bitches, and Sluts wherever you get your podcasts and watch on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Follow us on Instagram at bthe.wbs.pod for episode clips, historical rabbit holes, and the women behind the labels.