319. The Price Women Pay to Be Good: A Conversation with Elise Loehnen
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Most of us have heard of the seven deadly sins, but don’t really know what they are, where they come from, or how they play into how women are expected to behave in our society. In this episode, I’m joined by Elise Loehnen, author of the New York Times best-seller, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good. Tune in as we discuss the seven deadly sins and their origins (including the eighth sin that was eliminated), cultural programming and the effect it has on our lives, what exactly the patriarchy is and how it came to be, and why envy can be a sign of what you truly want.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:29.6 | This is one of those podcast interviews |
| 0:30.9 | where my guest and I just like riffed for 20 minutes |
| 0:33.7 | cackling hysterically and then we're like oh we should have hit record that |
| 0:36.6 | would have been good for everybody here going behind the scenes of all the nonsense |
| 0:40.3 | of our joint Ivy League education. |
| 0:42.6 | But that's not what we're here to discuss. |
| 0:43.9 | So that can be like a bonus follow-up podcast. |
| 0:45.9 | So I'm here with Elise Lunin, who has an incredible book |
| 0:49.7 | that I am sure you have seen around. |
| 0:51.2 | And if you have not, you should go purchase it immediately |
| 0:53.3 | called on our best behavior the seven deadly sins and the price women pay to be |
| 0:57.9 | good the minute I saw this title I was like this is my people before I even |
| 1:02.0 | realize that we had apparently been at Yale in the same college together a year apart and had neither of us had any memory of this because we were extremely introverted |
| 1:09.7 | So welcome to the show tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do, |
| 1:15.0 | and then we will dive into the book. |
| 1:17.0 | I love it. |
| 1:18.0 | A fellow Yale Ghost, although I think you probably had more of a presence. |
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