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Today's episodes on a lot of different things

But it centered most notably around Simone de Beauvoir and her revolutionary book entitled the second sex. I hope you love the show today

So whenever I make one of these things my

Absolute worst nightmare is for you to come out on the other side of the episode having not learned anything

Having never questioned what you already thought you knew about whatever topic we're discussing that week

Now this is a pretty easy task to accomplish when we're just talking about some obscure

Neoplatonist philosopher, right? I mean, I mean sure to you being somebody that scrubs toilets at a Neoplatonist museum every day

There's probably going to be some sort of novelty you can get out of that episode

But topics like the one we're going to be talking about today are a little bit more difficult because

When it comes to a topic that's as ubiquitous as feminism is

Each and every person listening already has their own

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