Dear Prudence: The “Cats Can Be Gay” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
If you don’t like it when people say “no problem,” then you’re the one with the problem, Prudie says. Then onto your questions: How do I talk to my adopted black daughter about race? My husband won’t keep his hands off me in public! I’m gay – what next? Speaking of coming out, why does my friend call inanimate objects lesbians? Prudence is joined by friend and biochemist Brandon Taylor. Hear more Prudence by joining Slate Plus: Slate.com/Prudiepod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon |
| 0:01.8 | Music. |
| 0:03.7 | 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. |
| 0:17.2 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.3 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.4 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.3 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:22.1 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. |
| 0:24.4 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:27.8 | Help. |
| 0:28.2 | Help. |
| 0:28.8 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.7 | Thank you. Welcome back to Dear Prudence. Once again, and as always, I'm your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Ortberg, with us in the studio leader today. We've got Brandon Taylor, who I'm very excited to get to introduce to you all. But first, I want to talk to you about the worst kind of person that is possible to be. Because I'm always concerned for each and every one of you, dear listeners, and that you achieve your fullest potential and become the greatest version of yourselves that is possible to be. I'm always on the lookout for pitfalls and snares that you might accidentally fall into that would turn you |
| 1:11.1 | into a terrible person because I don't want any of you to become terrible people. So the type of |
| 1:15.2 | terrible person I don't want you to become this week is the kind of person who has a real issue |
| 1:21.4 | when like service staff say, no problem instead of you're welcome. I don't know if you know what I'm talking |
| 1:29.2 | about. Sometimes people who work as waiters or in clothing stores or in customer service, |
| 1:38.3 | say informal variations on things like you're welcome because they have to follow a script |
| 1:43.5 | all day, every day, |
| 1:45.6 | hundreds of times with hundreds of strangers over and over and over again. Sometimes your brain |
| 1:51.4 | goes on autopilot. Sometimes after someone has said thank you for the 30th time, instead of saying |
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