Drunk Patriarchy
Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We open our topic suggestion box and talk about women's drinking and sobriety, lifehacks, therapy, and friendship with men. Note: in discussing alcohol and Men™, we mention sexual assault.
Links
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
The real reason why women drink (2016)
The new face of risky drinking is female (2013)
Libby app for library books
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Find a Therapist through Psychology Today or GoodTherapy.org
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend. |
| 0:01.7 | A podcast for long distance besties everywhere. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman. |
| 0:07.9 | Hi Anne Friedman. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello. |
| 0:10.8 | As we have discussed, our brains have completely run dry |
| 0:14.8 | as we put all of our ideas into this book. |
| 0:17.9 | Right, right, right, right. |
| 0:19.5 | But the great thing is that we ask for some questions |
| 0:22.4 | from the listeners and in true like great CYG listener fashion, |
| 0:27.3 | they delivered big time. |
| 0:30.0 | The |
| 1:00.0 | y'all are the best. Okay, let's play the first question. Hi! My name is Sarah. I'm calling |
| 1:09.6 | from Denver. I'm not a millennial. I'm 41. I just left an AA meeting. I went to AA a year |
| 1:18.4 | ago. I went to AA 20 years ago. I think talking about drinking and I just finished |
| 1:29.1 | Carolina, drinking a love affair or something like that and it's so my life and how you can |
| 1:38.7 | cross over an invisible line from being a drinker, a heavy drinker into actual alcoholism |
| 1:47.0 | and what that means. What are the signs and what should we be looking for and this |
| 1:53.9 | fucking-gets women ladies and it gets us and I love Rose and Kim Crawford's 7-year |
| 2:04.1 | block and was not someone who drank in the mornings but it fucking got me. That's what I think. |
| 2:12.6 | We need to be talking about. How does that sort of fall in line with self-care, self-compassion? |
| 2:20.6 | All the things that we're trying to lip in the bud as useful and young as possible. Right? |
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