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The Marriage Myth (Pt 2): Who Needs ‘Mr. Right,’ Anyway?

The Marriage Myth (Pt 2): Who Needs ‘Mr. Right,’ Anyway?

FromIn Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett


The Marriage Myth (Pt 2): Who Needs ‘Mr. Right,’ Anyway?

FromIn Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Nov 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In Part 1, Jess and Susie dissected how a salacious Newsweek report about women’s likelihood of getting married sparked a national panic. Here they share their own views on marriage – and unpack what we’d make of that silly story today. (If you haven’t listened to Pt 1, we recommend starting there!)
Guests:

Sharon Attia, associate producer for IN RETROSPECT and resident young millennial

FOR MORE:

Revisiting Newsweek’s ‘More Likely To Be Killed By a Terrorist Than Marry’ Story (The Atlantic, 2016)
‘I Don’t’: The Case Against Marriage (Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison, Newsweek, 2010)
Modern Love: Missing the Love Boat (Jessica Bennett, NY Times, 2012)
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Released:
Nov 25, 2023
Format:
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Titles in the series (38)

Is there a cultural moment from your past that looks different in retrospect? Maybe it’s a scandalous tabloid story seared into your teenage brain or a political punchline that just feels wrong now. It might be a very specific red swimsuit that inspired a decade of plastic surgery (see: “Baywatch”) or the inescapable smell of an entire generation of prepubescent boys (Axe body spray, anyone?). Each week on IN RETROSPECT, Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them — to try to understand what it taught us about the world, and a woman’s place in it. Talk to us at @inretropod, @susiebnyc and @jessicabennett on Instagram. New episodes each Friday.