Stay away boys - The Wonder Women have cooties this week! Cootie Catcher in the Rye and Dame Cootie Dench bring you back to recess as they dig into this pervasive children’s social lore. Learn the origin of the cootie, the different ways this so-called game has been used to teach and harm over the years, and explore how the cootie shot would work in real life!
Catcher and the Dame get into the trenches to learn the real life origins of this game and explore Cootie-lore around the world - from cootie catchers, to a wives’ parlor game, to Hasbro. What are cootie symptoms? Would cootie colonies be a thing? Are we the product of a cootie-coup? Also did someone actually name their kid ‘Cooter’?! Whether you call it ‘circle circle, dot dot’ or the ‘uku shot’ - you’ll want to re-up your cootie booster for this one!
Are cooties an insidious tool of the patriarchy to enforce damaging gender roles, a useful tool to teach small kids big, scary ideas, or an innocent way to cross the heteronormative gender divide? The truth is up to you.
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Hosts: Cootie Catcher in the Rye, Dame Cootie Dench
Producer: Cootie Patootie
Music: Cootie and the Blowfish
Crew: Kootie Couric, George Cootie, Cootie Garland
Back-up vocals: Kootie Perry, Death Cab for Cootie