From debunking myths about traditional romance to redefining friendship and intimacy, we're here to cut through societal expectations, rewrite the rules of connection, and make room for what really matters.
This week, we dig into 4B, the South Korean feminist movement built around four refusals: no dating men, no sex with men, no marriage to men, and no having children with men. What began as a response to deep-rooted misogyny, gender-based violence, beauty standards, and unequal domestic expectations has since travelled far beyond South Korea, sparking conversation among women around the world on burnout, heterosexual dating, safety, labour, and whether romance is still worth the cost. Basically, this episode gets into the bigger question at the heart of the movement: what would happen if women stopped organizing their lives around men?
27 May 2026
The Roles We Play (and Outgrow) in Friendships and Families
This week on Eat Your Heart Out, we’re talking about the roles we play in our friendships and families — the caretaker, the fixer, the comic relief, the responsible one, the “easy” one, the mediator, and, of course, the chaos agent. How do these roles form? Are they chosen, assigned or inherited? And what happens when we outgrow them, but the people closest to us still expect us to keep performing?
13 Apr 2026
Wait… What Even Is Virginity?
This week on Eat Your Heart Out, we’re getting into something we’ve all been taught to take seriously: virginity. The only problem? The more you actually think about it, the less it makes sense. We grow up treating virginity like it’s a real, definable thing... something you have, lose, or protect. But when you start pulling at it, the definition falls apart. Who decided what “counts”? Why is it so tied to morality? And why does it still feel like it says something about you, even when you know it doesn’t? Meaghan and Sadaf unpack where the idea of virginity comes from, who it actually serves, and why it continues to shape how we see ourselves and each other. From first times to double standards to the quiet pressure baked into it, this is about unlearning something most of us never questioned.
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