Dire Straights

Getting on the apps as a woman in midlife

Welcome to season 2. It's still dire out there! In this episode, Amanda gives us the full download on her first-ever experiences with online dating.

Aug 12 • Amanda Montei

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June 2026

One year of Dire Straights ✅

Thanks so much for supporting us—let us know what you want from Season 2!

Jun 11 • Amanda Montei and Tracy Clark-Flory

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May 2026

Are feminists "anti-family"?

Why being against the nuclear model of kinship is good, actually.

May 27 • Amanda Montei

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The sexual awakening that ends a marriage

Dire Straights Live: Tracy Clark-Flory and Myisha Battle talk about kinky tradwives, the myth of 'spontaneous sex,' and how straight men *need to wear…

May 13 • Tracy Clark-Flory and Amanda Montei

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55:06

April 2026

They sent my mom away to become a good wife

We talk about Tracy's new memoir, 'My Mother's Daughter,' the shame we inherit from our mothers in patriarchy, and how 1960s maternity homes tried to…

Apr 29 • Amanda Montei and Tracy Clark-Flory

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Why is feminism being blamed for everything?

We're in the midst of a backlash. Right-wingers and liberals alike are claiming that feminism has gone too far—especially when it comes to women’s…

Apr 15 • Tracy Clark-Flory and Amanda Montei

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1:20:49

Jeffrey Epstein, Les Wexner, and the 90s mall

How the pedophilic gaze shaped millennial girlhood.

Apr 1 • Amanda Montei and Tracy Clark-Flory

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March 2026

The anti-feminist conspiracy to make women need men

From the Heritage Foundation's latest report to Erika Kirk's pro-natalist propaganda, conservatives are trying to strong-arm women into marriage…

Mar 18 • Tracy Clark-Flory and Amanda Montei

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54:54

The definitive feminist history of the wine mom

A study in power, agency, and women getting high throughout the ages.

Mar 4 • Amanda Montei

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1:13:20

February 2026

The Hetero State of the Union

Dire Straights Live: Tracy Clark-Flory and Amanda Montei talk about Trump as a defender of patriarchal relevance, the bystander effect, Scott Galloway…

Feb 25 • Tracy Clark-Flory and Amanda Montei

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Is porn a scapegoat for patriarchy?

The adult industry has been blamed for everything from the ‘male loneliness epidemic' to low-effort men to women’s heteropessimism—and now it's being…

Feb 18 • Tracy Clark-Flory and Amanda Montei

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1:12:53

Epstein was behind the #MeToo backlash

Dire Straights Live: Tracy Clark-Flory and Amanda Montei talk about Chris Harrison's trad marriage dating show, manospherean looksmaxxer Clavicular…

Feb 11 • Amanda Montei and Tracy Clark-Flory

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