About Great in the Sack: when misogyny leads to mayhem
Don’t let the name of the podcast fool you...it’s a passive-aggressive poke at the way women seem to be viewed by society: expendable objects to be utilized and quite literally ended, if a perpetrator so chooses. That’s the message that I get from the lack of action over the entire world, & within our societies to protect women and girls. But it’s not just women and girls...it’s also marginalized groups & those deemed less. And as you’ll come to see, this growing problem is a symptom of misogyny, and ultimately, patriarchy. After all, patriarchy has many faces. If you’re anything like me, then you, too, feel it’s important to witness the stories where patriarchal values have contributed...or downright caused destruction or even death. To be able to identify patterns of misogyny in our own lives is empowering and can also make us feel more prepared...and here’s the thing, as most of you know: the patriarchy hurts us all. We will be discussing crimes that include honor killings, intimate partner violence, war crimes, anti-abortion violence..all things caused by patriarchal societies & misogyny, throught history and up to the present day. My hopes are to educate everyone on what the patterns of misogyny look like in each case, because history has a way of repeating itself. I’m neurodivergent af and am doing this podcast alone. Sometimes episodes are late, but I’m doing my best to get them out every other week!
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.4
In this final installment of our series on the women of Afghanistan, we examine the country’s trajectory following the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021. Moving past ridiculous initial public relations pledges of moderation, the systematic rollout of restrictive decrees are discussed..from early bans on secondary education and employment, to strict male guardianship (mahram) requirements and the sweeping 2024 Vice and Virtue laws that have basically dictated women’s public presence, dress, and speech…not to mention their ENTIRE EXISTENCE!
We also look into the rise of ”dark tourism” content creators whitewashing conditions in Afghanistan as fAkE nEwS, the internal political dynamics between leadership factions, and how Afghan women continue to resist through underground education and digital networks. Finally, we break down the sociological and psychological frameworks behind extreme institutional misogyny and talk about the ongoing international campaign to legally codify ”gender apartheid” under international law.
SHOW NOTES:
Links to different petitions/website to recognize gender apartheid in Afghanistan:
UN petition: https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/united_nations_human_rights_council_united_nations_un_human_rights_council_recognize_gender_apartheid_in_afghanistan/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTY3MDY3MzQzMzU
Gender Apartheid Recognition & Taliban Terrorist Designation https://c.org/xYVpXB5b6c
Act Now — End Gender Apartheid https://share.google/apqBQsWL2cMsGm7Wc
Socials~
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www.instagram.com/g.i.t.s.podcast
www.tiktok/@greatinthesackpodcast
https://bsky.app/profile/greatinthesackpod
Podcast theme music by Experia – ”Fighting the Tears”
Sources:
Afghan travel promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tivQXJ468Zw
https://lens.civicus.org/interview/afghanistan-the-new-law-reduces-women-to-a-state-of-enslavement/
Chronology of repression: The Taliban’s assault on women’s rights - Zan Times https://share.google/De91bHv4H7ElpM5eS
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cg7vdpy1l2vo
The Taliban’s three years in power and what lies ahead | Brookings https://share.google/ZzS4d23fVWoV3fuEA
https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/faqs/faqs-afghanistan
https://share.google/bF1Y1cNGNPTQQyHkfhttps://share.google/bF1Y1cNGNPTQQyHkf
https://share.google/TxAtgePC44IZ15C63
Among the Talibros, by T.M. Brown https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/among-the-talibros
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-bagram-8e1ed33fe0c665ee67ba132c51b8e32a5
(REST OF SOURCES CAN BE FOUND ON PODBEAN)
20 Aug 2026
The man who fooled the world: How the anti-vax movement came to be
Helloooo! I decided to do a small sidequest about the antivax ”movent”. I mean...how did a fabricated 12-person case study published in the medical journal called The Lancet kick off decades of modern vaccine panic?! In this episode, we take a deep dive into the history of inoculation, from early variolation and state-enforced mandates to the erosion of institutional trust in late modernity. We discuss the investigative reporting behind disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 study, uncovering undisclosed legal financing, patent schemes, falsified patient data, and unnecessary invasive testing performed on children.
From there, we talk about how Wakefield leveraged medical populism and targeted maternal guilt, setting up a trajectory that loops through modern wellness culture, conspirituality, and the extreme retreat into the tradwife lifestyle. Framing the episode through the sociological ideas of Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens on the Risk Society, we look at the reality of navigating institutional risk without abandoning critical thinking.
SHOW NOTES
Podcast theme music by Experia – ”Fighting the Tears”
Socials~
greatinthesackpod@protonmail.me
www.instagram.com/g.i.t.s.podcast
www.tiktok/@greatinthesackpodcast
https://bsky.app/profile/greatinthesackpod
Sources:
History of Anti-Vaccination Movements
https://historyofvaccines.org/vaccines-101/misconceptions-about-vaccines/history-anti-vaccination-movements/
Who is Andrew Wakefield
Who is Andrew Wakefield and what did the disgraced MMR doctor do? | The Independent | The Independent
Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction to the Risk Society
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs3c4
The Strange History of the Anti-vax movement
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250905-the-strange-history-of-the-anti-vaccine-movement
The Secrets of the MMR scare, parts 1, 2, & 3
https://briandeer.com/solved/bmj-wakefield-1-1.htm
https://briandeer.com/solved/bmj-wakefield-2-1.htm
https://briandeer.com/solved/bmj-wakefield-3-1.htm
Wellness communities and vaccine hesitancy
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1329878X241270526
The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448251385082
Behind the Bastards: Andrew Wakefield https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr.ildhrYRqbQIAd5Q_Ogx.;_ylu=Y29sbwNpcjIEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1788289634/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dMciU9UMBumY/RK=2/RS=BPKSG.J10A4faFVL6ii6lE5exbI-
Behind the Bastards: The birth of the antivaccine movement
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-birth-of-the-30580537/
Risk Society
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/risk-society
Wellness is turning people into right-wing conspiracy theorists – here’s how https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wellness-right-wing-conspiracy-conspirituality-b2752650.html
Weaponising motherhood: How anti-vaxxers target moms to sell their message https://www.canberra.edu.au/uncover/news-archive/2022/april/targetting-mothers-anti-vaxxers-insidious-strategies
How anti-vaxxers target grieving moms and turn them into crusaders against vaccines https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/how-anti-vaxxers-target-grieving-moms-turn-them-crusaders-n1057566
6 Aug 2026
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.3
Was the 20-year U.S. occupation a humanitarian rescue mission for women, or was it just a lie to push an agenda of military interventionIn? Hint: Embedded Feminism. In part 3, we look at the 2001 US invasion up through the 2021 fall of Kabul...contrasting the lives of rural women surviving drone strikes in Helmand and Wardak with urban women fighting for education and aid in Kabul. We also examine the reality of ”ghost soldiers,” NGO failures, and the story of Rukhshana.
In this episode:
The urban vs. rural divide under U.S. occupation
The hypocrisy of “Operation Enduring Freedom”
ANA (Afghan National Army) & warlord factions
Taliban resurgence
The collapse of Western-backed NGOs post-2021
SHOW NOTES:
Links to the 2 different petitions:
https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/united_nations_human_rights_council_united_nations_un_human_rights_council_recognize_gender_apartheid_in_afghanistan/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNTY3MDY3MzQzMzU
https://c.org/xYVpXB5b6c
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan:
https://www.rawa.org/rawa/2025/12/10/human-rights-are-attainable-through-dismantling-the-chains-of-imperialism-and-fundamentalism.html
Women for Afghan Women (WAW):
https://share.google/w2qlni2wSkyOIG2Cg
Socials~
greatinthesackpod@protonmail.me
www.instagram.com/g.i.t.s.podcast
www.tiktok/@greatinthesackpodcast
https://bsky.app/profile/greatinthesackpod
Sources:
The Afghan Women Left Behind | The New Yorker https://share.google/5xUh0LPs1nE8okhZR
The Other Afghan Women
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-Afghan-women
The New Afghanistan, Through The Eyes of Three Women https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pmLsep15NRgxPy7XMp9VO?si=PMA23Uh0RDSvX7_zbGGjQQ&utm_source=copy-link&sci=spotify%3Acard-config%3A6OlxRDhuxQhnah8XIpLaOB
‘The Decision of my Life’ https://open.spotify.com/episode/4T3gtrC9o8oNFu8N9hmOIB?si=SqLUOpHcTeWP0aigoR4NUw&utm_source=copy-link&sci=spotify%3Acard-config%3A0QIUOED5yunfLxGdtINccm
Afghanistan Unveiled
https://share.google/oaGGdV15jjjPYHscf
RAWA article http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2021/10/07/afghan-women-s-fight-for-freedom-and-democracy-will-never-fail.html
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567256
The US War in Afghanistan
https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-war-afghanistan
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