Behind the Scenes Minis: Serving Lip and Ethics

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Holly talks about Gladys Bentley's gender presentation, and the trouble with Maceo Sheffield. She and Tracy also discuss James Braid's ethics in both medicine and hypnotism.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.4	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:16.0	Hello and happy Friday. I'm Holly Fry.
0:18.9	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:21.0	We talked about Gladys Bentley this week.
0:23.4	Yeah.
0:24.1	And her sort of wild ride of a story.
0:26.5	It is. Yeah.
0:28.5	In some ways, it's so exuberant and joyful and wonderful that it makes talking about the parts that are a little bit trickier feel like a let down.
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:36.7	But those are also important.
0:38.5	Yeah.
0:41.6	One of the things that we didn't bring up during the show that is a little more on the lighter side,
0:49.0	I didn't know for sure if this was always the case or not.
0:53.6	Like we talked about, you know, she was in many ways very masculine presenting.
0:58.8	Yeah.
0:59.5	She was a large woman who wore these tailored men's suits.
1:03.6	Mm-hmm.
1:04.1	So striking.
1:05.5	Yeah.
1:05.9	She always had makeup on.
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