“Sleep Your Way To Empowerment” Has Failed Women - Bridget Phetasy - #820

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
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You seem to be able to publish your way into chaos or some sort of furor. Pretty right, it's about an annual cadence, I think, that you're able to do this.

**Bridget Phetasy** (4:23)
It's not intentional for the record. It is always surprising because I publish all the time. So it's always surprising when the pieces that take off are always somewhat surprising to me because it feels like when I write them, they always feel, I feel a little bit self-conscious about them because they're a little more personal and they're a little more navel gaze-y and it's not journalism or looking outward and analyzing the culture war in some kind of smart way. Like a lot of my, I don't know, they're not co-workers like the people who- Contemporaries, thank you. Like they do, so it's always wild to me.