Marina: Oh, do you want to do the intro?
David: Yeah, what do I say?
Marina: Say, “Hi, Welcome to Feminist Fridays — series where we explore the social, the political, and the media from a feminist and intersectional perspective.”
David: Guess who’s not going to remember any of that.
Marina: Try it, no, try it.
David: Let me see. Hi. Welcome to Feminist Fridays. A show on the Internet where we explore feminism through media, and something else, and something with the word perspective in it.
Marina: Close enough, and use a lot of F words. Today we’re bringing a boy onto Feminist Fridays, something that is very un-feminist. David, so you are a boy.
David: It’s true.
Marina: You are dating a feminist. What’s it like dating me/a feminist?
David: In regards to what?
Marina: Just everything.
David: In what aspect?
Marina: All of them.
David: P-Cool.
Marina: That’s not very rave reviews. I don’t like this already. Would you describe our relationship as matriarchal or patriarchal? It’s a trick question.
David: It’s a trick question?
Marina: It’s a trick question.
David: Why?
Marina: Because.
David: Because of equality?
Marina: Yes.
David: Oh my God.
Marina: You got it, you got it! It’s neither!
David: We did it!
Marina: Has there ever been a time where you have feared for you life around me?
David: Oh.
Marina: You weren’t supposed to have an answer. (laughing) I’m scary. I’m a feminist.
David: She is the scariest feminist I know.
Marina: Good. What are the struggles of dating a feminist?
David: The struggles would be when you guys leave rude comments and she reads them all day long, non-stop, out loud so everyone can hear. People call her a b–(beep), and a slut, and a c–(beep), and so these words are just constantly streaming through the house.
Marina: What was it earlier? “Dumb whore.”
David: Yeah.
Marina: Yes.
David: You’ll bleep those, right?
Marina: No.
David: Oh, okay.
Marina: As you know, dating a feminist is very demanding.
David: Yes.
Marina: That wasn’t a question.
David: Right.
Marina: It was more of a statement, so next question. (laughing) Okay, are there any expectations I have for you, as a feminist, so you think are difficult to meet?
David: The thing is, I feel like the feminism, it doesn’t come up—
Marina: The feminism, it’s—
David: The feminism.
Marina: The feminism just doesn’t come up.
David: It doesn’t come up a lot in our relationship actually.
Marina: Really?
David: Yeah.
Marina: Why do you think so?
David: I think because I’m not an asshole.
Marina: Probably (laughing).
David: I don’t pay you 74 cents for a dollar that I make.
Marina: Right. Because this is a business relationship? (laughing)
David: What else makes me a great feminist ally? Talk about how awesome I am.
Marina: You believe in feminism, that it exists, and are pretty damn cute.
David: Thanks.
Marina: Thanks, I guess. (laughing)
David: Okay. I’m going to ask you a feminist question.
Marina: Okay. That’s not part of the game, but all right.
David: Anna Howard Shaw v. Susan B. Anthony. Who’s winning in a fight? Fisticuffs.
Marina: That was in 30 Rock, right?
David: Yeah.
Marina: She was what?
David: A suffragette.
Marina: Was she a racist? What does she look like?
David: Oh, shit.
Marina: Oh, I feel like, yeah. She’s pretty sturdy. I feel like she definitely would be hard to knock over.
David: She looks hard as shit, too, though. Susan B. Anthony looks rough-and-tumble. Anna Howard Shaw, Susan B. Anthony on either side here. Bring them to fist. I think Susan B. Anthony looks like she would fight dirty.
Marina: Yeah.
David: A lot of dirt throwing, maybe some gut punches. Anna Howard Shaw would—
Marina: She’s immovable.
David: Right.
Marina: Just like a wall.
David: If this is a boxing ring and she does a launch off the side type of move, like a belly flop—
Marina: Yeah.
David: … Susan B. Anthony has nothing come.
Marina: Susan B. Anthony is going down.
David: Then she throws those silver dollars out like Ninja stars.
Marina: I don’t think we have the kind of technology to simulate this.
David: The budget for Feminist Fridays. (laughs)
Marina: Unlimited, well, as many silver dollars as you need.
David: Right.
Marina: If you had to describe feminism in one sentence, how would you describe it?
David: In one sentence?
Marina: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
David: How long of a sentence?
Marina: You have a minute and a half.
David: A minute? Now it’s timed? (laughs)
Marina: It’s a timed question.
David: Feminism is good because equality is what I believe in for everybody, and then this gesture. This gesture.
Marina: Okay. There’s going to be eagles shooting out of your arms. Eagles that—
David: Not out, in, in. Bring these ladies in.
Marina: Into your chest?
David: Into my heart, to wrap it up. How do you end these? I’d never make it that far. (laughing)
Marina: You’re terrible, and probably serious. (laughing)
