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Why Oh Why

End of the World Sex

Why Oh Why

Andrea Silenzi

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On election night last November, the world shifted beneath our feet... but what was going on our bedrooms? Nona Willis Aronowitz is a features editor at Splinter and writes a newsletter called "Fucking Through the Apocalypse." She joins us to discuss sex, politics and woke misogynists in the Trump era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Panoply.

0:05.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:08.0

You know that night last November 2016 that night when it felt like the earth

0:16.2

had shifted under your feet that night Nona was working she's an editor for

0:21.1

an online magazine and for her going to a guy's apartment for sex that night,

0:26.0

it wasn't her plan.

0:28.0

I know I was wearing some really dirty jeans and not cute underwear. I don't remember what I was wearing on the top, but it was not the type of outfit I would feel sexy in my hair was greasy I had no makeup on and I had this

0:47.9

impending sense of dread just like everybody else and then around midnight it was clear that the piece she was

0:54.3

going to be writing was about Donald Trump winning the election. So I had to write

1:00.6

something along the lines of never underestimate how much America hates women.

1:05.4

So while she was writing about the unfathomable depths of misogyny in America,

1:10.3

her cell phone was blown up.

1:13.0

This entire time I was getting texts from every which way,

1:18.0

not only from my friends, but from all levels of romantic partners.

1:25.0

I was talking to a guy who I'd never even met from an app,

1:30.0

from Bumble, who suggested end of the world sex.

1:34.0

Now I personally, I don't think I've ever had end of the world sex,

1:37.6

but I end up talking about it on dates a lot.

1:40.5

I like to ask a guy, how did you spend election night?

1:43.8

And sometimes they'll give me a proud look and say,

1:46.3

you know, there was this girl I was seen,

1:48.0

we had end to the world sex,

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