Dire Straights

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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April 2026

They sent my mom away to become a good wife

Listen now (61 mins) | We talk about Tracy's new memoir, 'My Mother's Daughter,' the shame we inherit from our mothers in patriarchy, and how 1960s…

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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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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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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February 2026

The Hetero State of the Union

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

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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Men need therapy. They also need feminism.

Men will do literally anything other than go to therapy, but is it all they need? And what are women really longing for when they insist their partners…

Feb 4 • Amanda Montei and Tracy Clark-Flory

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