Being vanilla — both sexually and otherwise — has always attracted jokes, criticism and even disdain. This week on Respectfully Disagree, The Swaddle Team asks why.

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What’s Wrong With Being 'Vanilla'?

This week, The Swaddle team debates the use and misuse of digital surveillance in the modern world, and if snooping is ever justified.

Is Surveillance Ever Okay?

This week, The Swaddle team dissects the concept of fame and questions its revered place in society.

What’s So Great About Fame?

This week, we discuss 'Love Jihad,' Rani Mukerji’s self-defence advice, and the problems with how we talk about women’s safety.

Do Women Need To Be Protected?

As filmmakers challenge highly controversial amendments to the Cinematograph Act, The Swaddle team discusses the history of the censor board in India, and whether we really need it.

Do Our Films Need a Censor Board?

This week, we discuss how rom coms depict dream jobs, “I don’t dream of labour” memes, and the downfall of girlboss culture.

Does the 'Dream Job' Exist?

As Indians come down on Nikhil Kamath for beating Vishwanathan Anand at chess with the help of a computer, The Swaddle team dissects what we think of cheating, and whether cutting corners can ever be a good thing.

Is Cheating the System Okay?

This week we discuss birth strikers, climate change, and the ethics of having more children.

Does the World Need More Children?

As class 12 board exams get cancelled around the country, we discuss Math test nightmares, the pressures attached to exam scores, and whether there is a point to school exams at all.

Do We Really Need School Exams?

This week, we discuss depictions of trauma in pop culture, the difference between adversity and trauma, and why we're quick to dismiss people's traumatic experiences.

Does Trauma Make You Stronger?

This week, we sat down with journalists Kalpana Sharma and Ragamalika Karthikeyan to discuss their experiences of reporting on sexual violence, and what sensitive and intersectional media coverage can look like.

What Does Sensitive Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Look Like?

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