Welcome back to the female dating strategy, the meanest female only dating podcast on the internet.

I am your host, Diana.

Oh, Diana, beloved Diana of the forest.

I am your host, Rose.

And I'm really happy to be back because actually Diana had been traveling for most of December and even into January.

And while we were able to record

some podcast episodes, of course with the holidays, we took some time for ourselves, which I think is

totally legit. And I want us to model for our listeners. It's okay to step away from the online

podcast and forums, et cetera, which is the point we're going to get to down the road here in this

episode. But I just wanted to say, Diana, it's nice to be back on our regular schedule.

I think I had realized how accustomed I had become to the sound of your voice and just these

wonderful conversations that we get to have with one another every week.

Yeah, it's become such a fixture in my life, like just, you know, once a week I get to hear

you. We get to have

these discussions. And like, it's been a really important part of my routine last year. You know,

when I was on holiday traveling, I was like, oh my God, I miss Rose. And oh, my God, I can't wait

to tell Rose about this. Same. Same. It's so interesting. When you go and travel and you meet the scroats of other lands and you're like, I must speak about these

scroats and bring the lore of the scroats to the podcast, you know?

I must bring the word of the street to the ladies of the land. It's true, though. It's true.

In many ways, I feel like we are sort of the heraldry of radical feminism. And I'm proud

of us for being that because it isn't always easy to speak

truth to the situation on the ground is it? People don't like to hear it necessarily. People don't

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