Yes, Women Can Be Friends and Not Frenemies (Ft. White Lotus, Gossip Girl, and The Women)
Explicit
History Harpies: Pop Culture, Past and Present by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff and Christine Caldwell Ames
S1 · E3
Apr 28, 2025
01:10:23
Episode notes
Lauren and Christine ask why bitchy, backstabbing lady-friends have always been so compelling in popular culture, and if “best friends” should make compromising videos of themselves with their friends’ boyfriends.
Book Recommendations
Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Keywords
Gossip Girl
Blake Lively
Leighton Meester
White Lotus
Mike White
Carrie Coon
Joan Crawford
Norma Shearer
Michelle Monaghan
Leslie Bibb
The Women
adultery
frenemy
friendship
feminism