The Kiss Overreaction and Why We Don’t Have White Guilt: Quillette Cetera Episode 18

Two recent controversies remind us that there's always the option to see yourself as a victor, not a victim.

Zoe Booth

21 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

(L) Australian Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, (R) Luis Rubiales kissing Jenni Hermoso.

In the first half of the podcast, Claire and I discuss how overblown the Women's World Cup kiss scandal is, and how much we enjoyed Heather Mac Donald's piece about it in Quillette.

A Kiss Is Just a Kiss

The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.

QuilletteHeather Mac Donald

Heather's essay invites us to reflect on the contradictory beliefs that women are strong and empowered, yet simultaneously so easily victimised by minor transgressions.

We then go on to discuss the Australian referendum on the Voice to Parliament and how impressed we were by Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's address to the National Press Club, which espoused a vision of Indigenous Australians as empowered, autonomous individuals, not perpetual victims of colonisation.

I hope you like this week's episode. Stay tuned for upcoming interviews with sex researchers Rob Brooks and William Costello, heterodox sociologist Andrew Glover, and more.

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