A podcast by women. For women. About everything. @MicksterNoonan @thatdunleavy @inspireajen
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Bloody lovely stuff from our bloody lovely boss.
In 2014, I was annoyed standing in front of magazine racks at train stations that there was nothing that appealed to me. The usual ‘women’s magazines’ didn’t speak to me and were too centred on beach bodies, white trousers and which fruit my body resembled.
Add to this that I love women. Ever since I worked for WHSmith and then the Jobcentre, I’ve been surrounded with women at work. When I got into comedy, those numbers dropped dramatically (they’re better now hoo-fucking-ray). So I started setting up small work places full of women. My TV series, my new material gig, writers’ rooms, my radio shows. Women, women, women.
I decided to do something about the lack of magazines for women like me (whatever that means) and thus create another all-women work space, a healthy, more interesting and feminist alternative to the magazines that were out there.
And thus began Standard Issue Magazine, edited by the fantastic Mickey Noonan. We were lucky enough to have some incredible women write wonderful articles for us. And the whole thing was run by 12 awesome women.
In 2017, I decided it was time to move with the times and we became a podcast @StandardIssueUK. The team: Mickey Noonan, Hannah Dunleavy and Jen Offord have since created over a thousand brilliant episodes of a podcast that treats women like they have brains, because we do, and are interested in the world. We are for women, by women, about everything. And we shine a light on some incredible sports women, journalists, playwrights, entrepreneurs, heck, all sorts of women from all walks of life who have something to say.
Standard Issue is a podcast championing women's voices, and packed with interviews, news, film, opinion and humour.
And on this International Women’s Day, I’d love you to give it a listen. Or comment on this post if you have listened. Or share it with your followers. It all helps. We hope you enjoy it. We’re super proud of it.
I feel this way about this project every day but today feels like a good day to shout about excellent women and their work.
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Men’s wandering dicks crash economies and their fragile egos start wars, but somehow women are still “too emotional” to lead. The irony is fucking hilarious.
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Not sure why GB News is so annoyed about this, when the group most likely to benefit from the changes are working class men.
🗞 BUSH! Telegraph: Just crying until we start laughing 🗞
Justice, recognition of abuse, the calling out of CPS tomfuckery, period products: it’s all been a long time coming, but Mick and Hannah are celebrating some wins this week.
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Can you name all 59 women who came forward against Cosby? Can you name half of them? Can you name 5? Would you recognize them out of context? Do you want an autograph?
Cool so we agree that women don’t make rape accusations to become famous.
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Women: "He raped me"
1850: Was she a respectable woman?
1900: Why didn't she resist?
1930: She was asking for it.
1960: What was she wearing?
1980: Why didn't she leave?
2000: Why didn't she report it?
2015: Why did she wait so long?
2026: What about his future?
Different generations. Same
determination to put the victim on trial.
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STOP calling 15-year-old girls "young women" in your headlines. They're CHILDREN. They're minors. They're adolescents. Stop using language that makes grown adults forget they're talking about kids. CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE: CHILDREN.
Lucy Beaumont: a brilliant comedian who should, like male comics, just be allowed to get on with her job of being funny. But bravo that incredible woman for supporting vulnerable women. 🫶
Many have been asking for a link to my interview with comedian Lucy Beaumont about the #Walliams allegations (which he denies). Here it is:
news.sky.com/video/comedian-…
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Seems a great time to draw attention to Charlie Broker's excellent Russell Brand takedown in 2015
🎞️RATED OR DATED🎞️ In 2001, Todd Field’s directorial debut, In the Bedroom, made waves at the box office as well as in awards season. But did its portrayal of violence shock Hannah? What’s Mickey’s line? And why does Jen know so much about burying bodies? buff.ly/9mpB4bt
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The most disturbing thing about the past few days is discovering just how many people share the opinion:
"Well, if she consented to a threesome with Russell Brand, she deserved to be anally raped by him a few days later."
📣 FRESH POD 📣As her name might suggest, Marathon Max runs marathons. A lot of them. She’s also a running and fitness competition coach, and a professional champion of women moving their bodies. Our @MicksterNoonan finds out more. buff.ly/9mpB4bt
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Those were a very powerful set of sentencing remarks, that stand as a counter to Russell Brand's grimly misogynistic defence strategy
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'Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no' - Judge Bennathan
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Judging by comments on here in relation to #RussellBrand there is still a massive misunderstanding as to what constitutes ‘evidence’ in a criminal trial. If a woman (or man) tells their account in court about an event, THAT is evidence. And it is sufficient evidence to convict.
In today's podcast Jen chats to writer and performer Hannah Reilly about her one-woman show Roleplay, a darkly funny and disturbing look at influencer culture, the commodification of feminism, male violence against women and girls and much more besides. buff.ly/ESLVbx4
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Russell Brand is now a convicted rapist. Understandably, the focus will be on the man himself and what he’s done, but today I’m thinking of the women who came forward. Having gone through a rape trial myself, I know just how much strength is required. Today, they’re my heroes.
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My WhatsApp is full of messages from female friends feeling relieved--and saying the same thing...I bet there are plenty of other powerful men shaking in their boots, wondering if they’ll be next to be called out for sexual harassment, assault and abuse.
🗞 BUSH! Telegraph: All bets are on! 📣
Mick and Jen scamper through this week's news, where they're chatting midterms results, a stone-age KC, a former archbishop with comprehension problems and an much-needed approach to vibes.
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In this week's Rated or Dated, we watched Brassed Off. Is the tale of a struggling mining community unappreciated? Does it give women a short shift? Does everyone love Pete Postlethwaite? And who is blowing their own *checks notes* Tom Jones? Have at it. buff.ly/osapz2o
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