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Welcome. Welcome back to Dear Prudence. It's the show with the most prudence. We maximize the amount of prudence that you receive every week. I am Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Orpurg. And with me in the studio today are old friends of the column, Gaya and Matt.

I will introduce them later. But first, I have something to say to my listeners. And I'm

finally saying listeners and not readers because I have finally been taught the difference between

listening and reading. It took a while. It's been about six months that we've been doing

this podcast now, but I finally stopped calling you readers, and I'm pretty proud of that fact.

I want to take a minute to call out queer women. I don't think that we're holding up our end of the bargain when it comes to promoting our Lord and Savior Carly Ray Jepson. I have to say, I've been following her career. I feel like queer men are really outshining us in terms of spreading the good news. And we're really falling down on the job. I don't want to say that we're not doing anything, but we're not doing enough. I don't know if that it's just been we've been so distracted with Tegan and Sarah over the last couple of years. But I feel like we've done a good job there. Like straight women know about Tegan and Sarah now. Straight women love Tegan and Sarah now, possibly more than we do. I'm not actually sure quite how to feel about that. I feel like it's sort of like flannel shirts where we were like, hey, these are great. And then straight women were like, my God, I need this every day of my life. And then we're like, wait, but we had that. Which is good, though. It's good. It's good to share. It's good to promote queer things into, you know, other avenues. I think that's great. But, you know, we did it with flannel shirts. We did it with Tegan and Sarah. And it's time to step up our game when it comes to praising Carly Ray Jepson.

I don't feel like I need to go into further detail. It's pretty self-evident to me that she should be a dyke on. And I just want you to encourage all of you to, you know, get to know her

personally on a deep personal basis, invite her into your heart, spread the good word, and just, you know,

really step up, like meet our queer brothers halfway because they have been carrying this burden

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