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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny Moms

DEEP DIVE: It's Not "Nagging"

What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny Moms

What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Comedy, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This month, we're doing a deep dive series into the division of household labor—why it's often unbalanced, and what we can do about it. You can find the playlist with all of the episodes in the series here. Want to see a mother get mad? Tell her she's "nagging" you after she's been obligated to repeat an entirely reasonable request several times over. And just why is "nagging" a word that's almost exclusively applied to women? We need the other members of our households to show up and do their share. As the default parents, we own the lists. So do we stop caring whether others like how we ask and remind? Do we enforce a back-to-one where we're not forced to ask repeatedly in the first place? In this episode Amy and Margaret discuss: The sexism and etymology of the word "nag" What Amy says are the three types of "nagging," and why we should separate them out What to say when our repeated asking is framed as annoying to other people (guess to whom it's also annoying, too?) Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Jessica Zhang on LinkedIn: "What's In a Nag?" Episode from If Books Could Kill podcast: "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" McClelland, T., & Sliwa, P: "Gendered affordance perception and unequal domestic labour." Our episode with Lynyetta Willis on "Stable Misery" Our episode with Eve Rodsky on "Changing the Invisible Workload" Anne Helen Petersen's newsletter Culture Study We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amy we are hitting the road. That is right. I'm so excited about this. What Fresh Hell Live is back. We are coming to stages around the northeast this fall and we are coming, we hope, to a city near you.

0:12.0

You can get your tickets now to see us live for a super fun mom's night out full of comedy,

0:18.4

community, and hanging out with us at every show.

0:22.6

We have not done this since before the pandemic,

0:24.5

so we are so excited to get back out on the road

0:27.2

and meet everybody and see you in person.

0:29.2

Ready to hear where you can find us.

0:30.5

We are going to be in Charlotte, North Carolina, Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C.

0:36.1

Our nation's capital, Philadelphia, and of course our hometown of New York City.

0:41.8

You can find out all the details about the show and get your

0:44.3

tickets at what Fresh Hel Podcast.com. Click tour dates at the top. Tickets are

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selling fast people so get yours today. It's everything you love about the

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tickets today.

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tickets today we cannot wait to see you.

1:00.0

Your expectations are insane.

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Your expectations are insane.

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What fresh hell!

1:06.0

Laughing in the face of motherhood.

1:08.0

Suck it up and live as everybody's doormat. with Margaret Apples and Amy Wilson.

1:16.0

You'll never make anything of yourself.

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A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.

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