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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 127 | WOKE Writers End Up Single ... Surprising?

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Writers who decry monogamy, marriage, and children are all too common now. But where does the anti-traditionalist mentality get these women five years or more down the line? Protect your online activity TODAY with ExpressVPN. Get an additional 3 months FREE with a 1-year package at https://www.ExpressVPN.com/Lauren Go to https://ImperfectFoods.com/LaurenChen to save $10 off your next four orders! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:07.0

Today we're going to be looking at whatever happens to those and I don't mean to sound mean even though

0:14.8

I don't know if that's going to be possible considering the subject matter, but those bitter

0:19.5

stereotypical man-hating writers that we always see online. Let me paint you a picture

0:24.7

you're scrolling through Facebook or Twitter and you see some article from the

0:28.6

usual suspects places like Salon, Jezebel the Guardian, you know the ones, complaining about how marriage is a prison

0:35.9

or how children are a burden or how men are trash, monogamy is a lie, etc, etc.

0:40.9

Those types of pieces are always good for a cringe read, which of course I love. But have you ever wondered what happens to those writers two, three, or heck even five, six, seven years down the line, like personally, because sure, maybe for those people in the

0:55.8

moment it might feel empowering to not just be happy with your singleness, which of course is totally

1:00.8

fine, but to actually mock and criticize conventional relationships

1:04.8

and to revel in things like one night stands and casual hookups, but where does that mentality

1:10.1

and behavior ultimately get you? Is that the kind of attitude that's not only

1:14.2

going to be gratifying in the moment but also lead to long-term happiness and

1:18.2

meaning? Well that's what we're going to look at today through the examination of

1:21.7

a couple case studies since we're professional

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