Dear Prudence: The "Sell The Damn Ring" Edition

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Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

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🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Prudence is joined this week by writer and film critic Willow Maclay. Maclay runs the website Curtsies and Hand Grenades, and is co-author of the upcoming book Corpses, Fools and Monsters: An Examination of Transgender Cinema. Together they tackle letters about how to get along with the normal but sometimes annoying family that took you in, what to do when you can no longer afford the travel expenses in your long distance relationship, how to handle an cheating ex-fiance you still have feelings for, how to handle your family’s demands for holiday time when they don’t align with your partner’s family, what actions to take when your wife of 25 years suddenly blames you for the life she didn’t have. Also, Prudie reads a letter from a white woman who is wondering if it’s wrong that she feels more connected to black children than children of other races. Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Willow discuss a letter writer who wants to be single, but is afraid of loneliness, and another letter writer who is wondering if she should help her alcoholic mom who abandoned her. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod. Email: [email protected] by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.1	slash Prudipod. Dear Prudence, Dear Prudence, Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Do you think that I should contact him again?
0:54.0	Help.
0:55.0	Thanks.
0:56.0	Thank you. Hello and as always I am your host Daniel Mallory Orddberg. With me in the studio this week is
1:14.4	Willow McClay, a writer and film critic who runs the website Kurtzies and Hand Grenades.
1:19.5	She's also the co-author of the upcoming book, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters in Examination of Transgender Cinema.
1:25.6	Willow, welcome.
1:26.6	Hello.
1:27.6	Hello, thank you for having me.
1:28.6	Thank you so much for coming on the show.
1:30.4	I'm so excited to have you here.
1:33.0	We were just having a wonderful conversation a minute ago about the favorite movie which I just saw
1:38.1	yesterday and you got to see semi- recently and I just still keep I keep thinking this is not spoilers by the way but there's a
1:46.7	wonderful scene where somebody is angrily writing a letter and crumpling up
1:50.9	letters and throwing them behind them which is just a scene that I haven't seen in a movie in a while.
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