I’ve listened to all seasons of this podcast and I really enjoy the historical perspective, but there is a lot of opinion injected, so you need to take some things with a grain of salt. It has got me thinking about a lot of our social constructs, but so much of it is focused on making women’s lives better. I keep wondering if the solutions suggested would make the lives of children better. For example, in the recent season, there was discussion of divorce being a blip in the happiness of adults, but what about the affect of divorce on children’s lives? Prior seasons discussed child care, but is more institutional child care better for children? In my experience, the answer is no.

They’re definitely stretching to say marriage is bad. Pro tip: if an institution has been around and lauded across different cultures for literally thousands of years, there’s probably something good about it smh. I don’t know who this benefits to try to put down marriage. The host is also happily married and born and raised from a married couple. Hypocritical.

This is such a great podcast and I listened to the who podcast in two whole days! I am a history buff, a feminist, and hopefully one day, a future mom. I loved that this podcast balanced both current events and history and how white women today really need to take a good look at how they have used the same rhetoric to leave out those of different classes and races, even those who aren’t mothers or different genders. Women, all of us and especially us white women, really need to stop being one issue feminists because it leaves out WHOLE groups. Democracy will be the better for it.

I’ve only listened to your 2023 podcasts so far but will definitely go back and listen to 2022. The history behind Moms of Liberty is fascinating but frightening. Their sudden rise wasn’t sudden at all but a resurgence. Thank you for the historical context. A new weekly listener.

An incredible start to the new season…thank you! I didn’t realize how much of book bans and other modern fear-mongering was led by these women. A critical view into how women will weaponize their position in the word to uphold a dangerous status quo, and a look into how to counter that

This podcast helps make the unseen parts of our social fabric more visible. This is timely, relevant and well done.

Great listen, tons of information, and terrific context for today’s politics and caregiving crisis. Yes, I am biased. Aren’t we all? Can’t wait for the next season!

Revisiting this podcast for a second time. The topics covered are still as relevant as ever. Very well-produced podcasts with lineup of historians, politicians, and other scholars as guests. They pack a lot of information, backed by data and history, into each brief podcast. They share how people in power from every party affiliation and era have exploited women and caregivers, and ultimately contributed to the dismantling of policies that could have established support systems for families and children years ago but did not out of spite and desire for maintaining political control. Finally, the hosts and guests go deep into our history to explain the role that racism and patriarchy played and how it continues to shape our political rhetoric and policies today. Spoiler alert: politicians today are recycling rhetoric from generations ago to fear monger us into believing that investing in child education, childcare, healthcare, nutrition, and other family supports is bad. P.S. I notice that the 1 star reviews I read were written by men upset that their wives listened to this podcast which only proves the points about male fragility and the patriarchy’s fear of losing power and control.

Well-researched exploration of biased policy making that has created an exploitative child care system and failed to provide adequate public support to parents.

This is a really good podcast that helps put race issues into an understandable perspective for anyone interested in learning. It teaches how historical race relations have created the current political situation... and it’s not boring. Good podcast, totally recommend. Very excited to see that a new season is here!

Whole lot of options presented as facts. I listened in hopes of learning, facing, understanding things outside myself but this was not that.

As a white women, I have privilege I need to acknowledge and combat racist white people. Listen to all the the episodes in one day. Hoping for a season two!

I think this is a conversation America needs to have regularly. Trump didn’t bring racism to modern American politics, he just gave it a platform and a face that the Trump cultists have been waiting for.

I listened to this whole series and came to the conclusion that it was the single greatest display of broken thinking I had ever come across. The flaw is foundational and then extends from there. The primary premise of this critical race theory nonsense is that white people “owe a debt to society” based primary on the color of their skin and the place they happen to have been born. I “owe” something. And failure to pay that debt somehow makes me and my wife enablers of “structural racism”. Think about it...if my wife was a born in Finland...nobody would be messaging to her that she owed this debt to society. There would be no podcast telling her that she has a responsibility to invest her time into “the cause”. Yet just because God decided to drop her into a white body in the United States...she somehow DOES “owe”. I reject the premise of this show. Fully. Life has not been easy for us. And we’re in our second half of life. The clock is running out...and we are still playing catch-up from 2008. I certainly am not going to allow the left to “decide” that I now owe a debt to other people based on nothing other than the color of my skin. I’m not going to sign up for the cause of PETA. I’m not going to sign up for the cause of the climate change crowd. And I’m not going to sign up for the cause of the race hustlers. And I am guilty of any crime for not doing so. Putting on a helmet, keeping my head down, and working hard to make things better for my family is a 100% acceptable and moral choice. The children shall not be punished for the sins of the fathers and I don’t intend on allowing myself or my family to be punished for the sins people in the past. Clawing through life is hard enough without taking in extra burdens just because people plagued with needless guilt and broken thinking try to strap one to my back.

Thanks for the honesty and explaining in words what some refuse to believe but what almost every African American woman already knew.

I learned so much from White Picket Fence. I’m 76 and lived through all the years that Julie Kohler tells us about and, even so, I had little idea of what would happen behind the scene. Thanks so much for telling me the whole story.

Thank you. This is great.

If this podcast makes you defensive, you need to keep listening! White women need to understand our history of racism and oppression. I’m glad this podcast exists. PS: The 1-star reviews are all from fragile white woman who can’t handle the truth 😂

Placing all the problems in america squarely on the shoulders of White Women. White Women are every bit as disenfranchised and or abused as any other group. Gaslighting and finger-pointing at its best here folks. Do not waste your time. Just work to do the right thing the next right thing at a time and ignore this race baiting drivel.

Well balanced and honest narrative about the history of white women in American culture. We need more of this.

After participating in a class on John Biewen’s “Seeing White”, this was a perfect follow-up. I am ready to join the marathon and cede my white privilege, which has for too long kept me oblivious to the white supremacy that has permeated our culture. I no longer want to sit idly by, as more and more people of color are marginalized. Thank you for creating this podcast.

I’m just here to help outweigh all the racists leaving 1-star reviews. Thank you for this pod. Great perspectives with well-qualified guests.

This is a great and obviously much-needed podcast. It’s sad to see how triggered white people are that they have to come and leave crappy reviews simply because they feel this podcast threatens their supremacy. What a disappointing lot we are. As a white woman, I’m grateful for the chance to grow, change and hear some truth. This podcast will absolutely make you think and question and that might be uncomfortable. Don’t turn away from that. Embrace it.

Read the comments and you’ll see just how alive systemic racism is. Great podcast

Intentionally vague references with no data or historical sources - uninteresting and cliche.

This is really informative, and challenging, in a good way. Thank you so much for diving deep and digging up the cold hard truth. We need to hear this so we can make better decisions.

To say that this does nothing but build division and create a false sense of being a victimized individual if you are different is dangerous. I say this as someone they would classify as disadvantaged or not as privileged. Stop identifying us all by our little boxes you all are fake empathetic but really you are being superior so get off your high horse and quit making us all different. You and your fake empathy are what’s wrong. You are the racists.

The podcast provides fresh perspective along with the data to back it up.

All the one-star reviews are from racist white women.

This has got to be the best podcast I’ve ever watched. I honestly believe more than most of this is true, especially the second episode.

“I am privileged and my society was built on the backs of colored people.” No honey, picking cotton didn’t build America. The sacrifices of generations of WASP men and a few Catholics did the heavy lifting.

Propoganda trash!

Is it almost time to stop looking down on people for the actions of others that share their gender/race?

This is certainly a liberal podcast, and if you’re a conservative, it may make you uncomfortable. I happen to be one of those increasingly rare political unicorns: a moderate. But geez, if you’re so far removed from understanding your political opponent that you have to give a 1 star review every time you happen across someone sharing ideas you disagree with, you’re pretty much exactly the problem described in this here podcast! Fun coincidence. Good podcast, well made, interesting topic. Check it out if you like conversations about race and gender.

What else do they need? Trash.

Guys. This is the total comedic package. Nothing about this woman or this podcast is meaningful in any way/shape/form. However, I did send this to my white girlfriends so they could learn more about how we have fallen short 😂 Aliens? Hello? Are you out there? Please start abducting us and taking us to better planets where this kind of content doesn’t exist.

Well-researched podcast. Thank you for putting this together.

It’s a great podcast, however, I would like to hear more about Latin American woman and our experience as immigrants or people born here ( not as a homogenous collective) The differences and discrimination applies to us too. I’ll be a citizen quite soon and I don’t find that Latin American people is represented in media whatsoever (we are always a stereotype )

And many suburban white women virtue signaled on Facebook from their Mercedes and Land Rover SUV’s after listening , truly making an impact on the world , they won’t be silenced

I think there are so many 1/5 stars because the white people listening...can’t handle criticism. I’m a white woman and I encourage others to listen and try to get more perspectives on how to do better and how we’ve messed up over multiple generations.

The white women who need to listen to this, won’t.

Don’t waste your time

Love this! It’s time us white women hold ourselves accountable for our role in systematic racism and acknowledge our privilege. It’s our job to educate ourselves to do better.

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Glad someone is holding white women accountable. Well produced.

Eager to delve deeper. Great teaser.

An important perspective on the political landscape.