It just felt like it was a gay joke that made it okay to experiment with gay.

It's like, you know, give it that old college trial.

Like, let's experiment with our bodies, but instead we're hurting ourselves.

Harmony Calangelo is one of the hosts of This Ends at Pram, a podcast that analyzes coming

of age teen girl movies through a queer feminist lens using her perspective as a trans woman

and her wife BJ's perspective as a cisgender woman.

Harmony is also a pop culture and horror writer co-author with her wife of a book about the

classic slasher sleep away camp.

Today, we are skating and screaming down a grimy memory lane to talk more about the

teen boy content of Jackass.

How the show affected our own journey with gender, how it affected the greater culture of masculinity,

the Peter Pan syndrome it couldn't help but encourage, and the stunts and pranks that

generously provided us with dangerous inspiration and an eternal source of unhinged laughter.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American hysteria.

Hello Harmony, I could not be more excited to talk to anyone about Jackass.

Thank you so much for being here.

I'm glad to be here.

I mean, just to get it out of the way, Jackass forever was my favorite movie of that year.

Sorry to anyone else who didn't stand a chance.

This is why you're here.

So, you and I, what year were you born, first of all?

1991, so.

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