64. Are Women Required to Be Nicer Than Men?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 15 August 2021

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Also: should you feel guilty if you don’t read books?

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0:00.0	I would like to violently agree with you.
0:05.3	Yay!
0:06.3	But before I violently agree, I would like to violently disagree.
0:09.5	Oh no.
0:10.5	Hey!
0:11.5	I'm Antelope Duckworth.
0:12.5	I'm Stephen Dubner, and you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:17.0	Today on the show, how important is it to be nice?
0:20.5	Oh my gosh, I'm so excited you won the swimming.
0:23.5	Okay, tell me everything.
0:25.2	Also, is reading books somehow morally superior to consuming other forms of media?
0:31.8	Someone was bragging that they were on track to read over 30 books this year.
0:35.9	I joke that I was on track to watch 300 hours of YouTube.
0:39.0	So, Angela, we get a lot of interesting emails from our listeners for which I'm grateful.
0:49.5	And occasionally there's a comment to the effect that they enjoy our dynamic so much
0:54.8	because it's a little sweet and sour.
0:58.6	They say that you, in addition to being so smart, are also so nice.
1:04.0	While I, in addition to being less smart, am also mean or snarky or negative.
1:12.0	Acerbics, sarcastic, critical.
1:14.8	I'm just guessing.
1:16.1	Maybe you're the one writing all these emails.
1:18.8	So, whether or not this is true, it did make me wonder.
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