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Powerful men hurt or humiliate women, and somehow there’s always another tour, another contract, another “cheeky larrikin” rebrand waiting for them. This week on Rage on the Rocks, Sarah and Lauren run a second‑chance audit on the Boys’ club loyalty program – who gets the comebacks, who pays the price, and who keeps renewing their membership.

We start with Jimmy Fallon’s cosy Tonight Show interview with Conor McGregor, recorded after an Irish civil jury found McGregor liable for sexually assaulting Nikita Hand and ordered him to pay damages – a verdict later upheld. Fallon’s laughs‑and‑family chat never mentions Nikita or the case, and that’s our entry point into a much bigger pattern: politicians whose abuse is treated as “colour”, shock jocks rewarded for vulgar misogyny, presidents and power brokers whose sexual misconduct and friendships with men like Jeffrey Epstein don’t stop the comeback train.

If this episode brings things up for you, you don’t have to sit with it alone. In Australia you can call 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), the national 24/7 counselling service for anyone impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, or supporting someone who is. You can also call 1800 FULL STOP (1800 3 85 578), run by Full Stop Australia, for free, confidential trauma counselling nationwide. If you’re in immediate danger, call 000.

Notes

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-23/conor-mcgregor-sexual-assault-2018-dublin-hotel/104638650

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6n04xjj1qo

https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/jimmy-fallon-conor-mcgregor-tonight-show-nikita-hand-backlash/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-10/four-corners-investigation-christian-porter-sexism-inappropriate/12862910

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56560666

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-26/troy-buswell-ex-wife-feared-going-public-with-abuse-claims/100165914

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-28/decade-of-wa-sex-scandals-exposed-strip-clubs-troy-buswell/11827540

https://theconversation.com/for-27-years-the-kyle-and-jackie-o-show-indulged-australias-most-vulgar-sexist-impulses-277510

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/impeachment/clinton-impeachment-and-its-fallout

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/monica-lewinsky-calls-out-bill-clintons-handling-of-their-scandal-says-i-was-thrown-under-the-bus-lost-my-future/articleshow/118600069.cms

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-13/what-we-know-about-donald-trump-relationship-with-epstein/106004310

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Oh we have A LOT to get through today.

We're kicking off with quick fire news, and honestly the news cycle has been WILD. We're talking about the SA abortion bill that just got voted down, Pauline Hanson rocking up to the National Press Club after three decades to call the gender pay gap "smoke and mirrors" (spoiler: it is absolutely not), and the absolutely jaw-dropping cervical cancer data that shows what happens when we actually invest in women's health. Hint: we eliminate a cancer. Like, the whole cancer.

Then we're going deep on gender reveals. Where did they come from, why are they everywhere, and why are they - at best - unnecessary and at worst genuinely harmful? The woman who invented them in 2008 has publicly said she regrets it. We get into it.

We've also got our Glimmers because we all need something to hold onto, and we're closing out with a Happy Pride to the community. You are seen, you are loved, get in here.

Oh...and somewhere in there we break down the New York Times piece by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about Trump's team having what can only be described as a full meltdown in the Situation Room over the Epstein files. JD Vance wanted to put Tucker Carlson in a room with Ghislaine Maxwell. This is not a drill.

Grab your drink. Let's go.

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Today we’re doing something a little different: a rapid‑fire tour through the week in women’s news, fuelled by tarot pulls, gin and soda, and a healthy dose of feminist rage.

This week: Barnaby’s latest abortion “hot take,” Bonnie Blue and her golden baby shower, the appalling treatment of women in politics (featuring yet another tired “ditch the witch” moment), and Epstein’s personal secretary doing her best “I know nothing” routine — all while military exercises roar overhead. It’s a mix of laughs, rage and shout‑outs to the women holding it together in a country that keeps asking them to swallow just one more thing. Rage on.