Dear Prudence: The “Slightly Lesser Mess” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by San Francisco based game critic, Carolyn Petit. Carolyn is the managing editor at Feminist Frequency, and a co-host on their podcast, Feminist Frequency Radio, alongside Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams.
Together they tackle letters about how to handle a boyfriend is who pressuring you to move in, what to do when you notice your daughter exploring her gender identity, what actions to take when an old acquaintance suddenly fills your phone with distressing texts, how to decide if you should offer support to your teenage daughter’s first ex-boyfriend, and what to when your husband chronically under appreciates you. Prudie and Carolyn also respond to a voicemail from a listener who is wondering if she should honor her father’s will that was written out of anger.
Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Carolyn discuss a letters writer who is wondering how to handle her anger towards her mom who gave her toddler oral herpes, and another letter from an atheist who is wondering if she should get baptized to ease the anxiety of her elderly grandmother. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon |
| 0:01.8 | Music. |
| 0:03.6 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | To get the full-length member's only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash |
| 0:12.3 | prudipod. |
| 0:17.4 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.3 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.4 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.6 | Dear Prudy. |
| 0:22.6 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:26.6 | Help. |
| 0:27.6 | Help. |
| 0:28.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello. Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show. |
| 0:43.5 | Once again, and as always, I am your host, Daniel Mallory Orberg, also known as Dear Prudence, with me in the studio this week, is Carolyn Pettett. |
| 0:52.0 | No, I think I said it wrong this time. |
| 0:53.6 | No, that was exactly right this time. I should never. You nailed it. This is like when you answer something on a test and then you immediately second guess yourself, but you were right the first time. It's devastating. She is a San Francisco-based game critic and the managing editor at feminist frequency. She is a co-host on the podcast Feminist Frequency Radio alongside Anita |
| 1:10.8 | Sarkeesian and Ebony Astor. Carolyn has also worked with Anita on projects like Troops |
| 1:15.4 | versus women in video games. Carolyn, welcome to the show. Thanks so much. Thrilled to be here. |
| 1:20.3 | Thank you so much for being here and for reassuring me about pronunciations and also for |
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