Gender War Games Pt. 4: White Womanhood Activated with Material Girls

When womanhood is reduced to a capitalist identity, who gets erased—and who gets empowered to do the erasing? In the final episode of Gender War Games, host Cristen Conger joins Material Girls co-hosts Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman to unpack how white womanhood is activated—politically, culturally, algorithmically—to reinforce systems of power. From tradwife aesthetics to terf rhetoric, strategic essentialism to state violence, discover how white femininity gets mobilized as both soft power and backlash engine in the so-called gender wars. (00:00) Gender Equality Survey Says... (00:59) The Real Societal Tension: Wealth Inequality (03:37) Strategic Essentialism and Gender Categories (08:37) Scapegoating and Transphobia (12:01) Gender as a Technology (14:45) Capitalism, Social Reproduction and Gender Roles (18:46) Masculinity Crisis By Design (26:44) Racial Capitalism (31:18) The Political Weaponization of Gender (39:59) Community Building Beyond Individualism For ad-free bonus episodes and uncut guest interviews, visit patreon.com/unladylikemedia . Get in touch on Instagram @unladylikemedia , and/or

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Gender War Games Pt. 4: White Womanhood Activated with Material Girls is an episode from Unladylike by Unladylike Media.

This episode is 45:09 long.

This episode was published on May 13, 2025.

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