Dear Prudence: The “Anti-Pronoun” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Prudie says, nine times out of ten it is not a good idea to steal someone else’s pet. Then, your questions: My husband refuses to do anything about his snoring and it’s keeping my family up at night. My friend overcharged me for rent and lied about it, so I moved out and now our mutual friends think I’m the jerk. I’m not comfortable using the singular “they” to refer to trans people – could you make something else up for me? My girlfriend is jealous of my masseuse – what do I do? Hear more Prudence by joining Slate Plus: Slate.com/Prudiepod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | To get the full-length members' only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash prudipod. |
| 0:17.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.7 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.8 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.4 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.4 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:23.6 | Do you think that I should contact him again |
| 0:27.8 | Help |
| 0:28.5 | Thanks |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you Welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show once again. |
| 0:45.1 | And as always, I am your host, Mallory Orberg, also known as Dear Prudence, with us in the studio today. |
| 0:50.4 | I am very excited to have the roommate of a former guest, Eliel Cruz. We're going to get to him in just a minute. But first, I recently answered a question in the column that seemed so important to me that I thought I should also take to the podcast and send out a general reminder to my listeners. And that reminder is this, You probably shouldn't steal other people's pets. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm not going to go so far as to say I will never give any of you permission to steal a pet because |
| 1:19.1 | life is a rich tapestry and every once in a while something really bananas might come down the pike |
| 1:25.0 | and you might be in a situation where stealing a pet is the |
| 1:27.8 | only right choice in front of you. But I'm going to go ahead and say that nine times out of ten, |
| 1:32.1 | it is not the right choice. I had a letter writer this week who wanted to know if they could |
| 1:36.6 | steal their neighbor's cat because their neighbor lets their cat go outdoors. That's it. Not that |
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