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Blocked and Reported

Are You Woke Enough To Pay For A Sex Worker? Also: What's The Matter With Meghan Daum? (Featuring Meghan Daum)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After the pod gets off to yet another rough start thanks to a vicious anti-bread tirade Katie levels at Jesse, the cohosts heat up some leftovers from the last episode by disentangling Karens and Beckys (sorry, Karens and Beckys!) and further explaining their views on expertise. Then they discuss "Why Won't Woke Boys Pay For Sex?," the MEL Magazine article that lit Twitter on fire last week: Is Progressive Sex-Worker Discourse in line with most people's intuitions about the nature of prostitution? Is it politically problematic to not want to pay your friends for sex? In the final segment, the cohosts move on to "I Left New York for Greener Pastures — and a Puppy," a controversial Meghan Daum article in GEN. Is it wrong to leave New York for other, less-infected parts of the country, potentially bringing the virus with you? Along the way Jesse and Katie are joined by a special guest, who may or may not be Meghan herself. You'll just have to listen and/or look at the title of the episode to find out.
Show notes:
-"Why Won't Woke Boys Pay For Sex?" (https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-wont-woke-boys-pay-for-sex) (MEL Magazine)
-Chris Kavanagh's Twitter thread about Blocked and Reported and expertise (https://twitter.com/C_Kavanagh/status/1252366126450802688)
-"I Left New York for Greener Pastures — and a Puppy" (https://gen.medium.com/i-left-new-york-for-greener-pastures-and-a-puppy-c58d895dcabf) (GEN)

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0:00.0

Hey, Jesse.

0:02.0

Hey, Katie.

0:04.0

How's it going?

0:06.0

It's fine.

0:07.0

I do have some bread cooling that I want to eat pretty soon.

0:10.0

So could we get right into the episode?

0:12.0

I'm kind of in a hurry at the moment.

0:14.0

I mean, it's probably going to take us like an hour to record the episode.

0:17.0

I don't think we should really rush it just so you can get to your car bloating.

0:21.0

Katie, I thought you might respond that way.

0:24.0

Let me explain something to you.

0:26.0

Those of us who bake bread frequently.

0:28.0

And as I may have mentioned, you know, I do bake bread quite frequently,

0:31.0

including just now, when we do that, the act of baking bread

0:35.0

brings with it a certain connection to mother Gaia and to our ancestors

0:39.0

that frankly non-bread bakers like you often fail to understand.

0:43.0

So the fact that you just lashed out at me as viciously as you did,

0:48.0

you know, it doesn't surprise me.

0:50.0

It disappoints me, but it doesn't surprise me.

0:52.0

Were your ancestors bread bakers?

0:54.0

Not that I know of. I meant ancestors in a more general sense.

0:58.0

Okay, gotcha.

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