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One Bad Mother

Episode 474: Dear God Why Am I The President of Everything? I Didn't Even Vote! with Kate Mangino

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Household heteronormativity is soooo yesterday, everyone. Or at least, it should be. Kate Mangino, author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home, joins Biz to discuss cognitive labor, the many lies of television, and how there is no "outside" and "inside" work. Plus, Biz saw a change.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Benz. I'm a working parent with a kid and a teen.

0:03.6

It's been 10 years since the show began and a lot has changed on the show and in the world.

0:09.6

But by elevating the voices of others, we have learned we are not alone and we are doing

0:15.2

a good job. This is still a show about life after giving life. This is One Bad Mother.

0:25.0

This week on One Bad Mother, dear God, why am I the president of everything?

0:29.1

I didn't even vote. We talk about household gender inequality with Kate Manjino,

0:34.5

author of Equal Partners, plus Biz saw a change.

0:40.3

Woo! This is a jacket. Yay!

0:44.0

Hey, so you're old. It's having friend problems. Yay! She has children to be friends with some of the

0:52.8

meanest, rudest grade two kids I've ever met. And then she has play dates with them and comes

1:00.0

home crying because they were rude and mean and yet she continues to go back to them because

1:06.1

she knows them and because one of them lives across the street from us. And so these are her friends

1:11.2

and it just, it always ends in tears. It always ends in tears. And so, you know, the silver lining

1:21.1

is that we're moving in two months and she'll have to switch schools so she'll never see these

1:27.0

household kids again. But in the meantime, I have to deal with this and walk her through the steps

1:33.5

of choosing different friends. And I hope not that that would be part of parenting because,

1:40.3

you know, my parents didn't do that for me because I am a millennial and our parents didn't talk

1:48.4

to us. So, I'm talking to my kid about things that I don't know how to talk to her about,

1:55.2

except that I've also had friends that were mean and rude. And so now I just, I don't know,

2:01.4

I guess I help her with my own experiences. Is that parenting? How much is oversharing with

2:07.6

your own kid? I don't know. On the other hand, my three-year-old has decided that about

2:16.0

damn time Delizo is her favorite song. And hearing a three-year-old sing about damn time is the

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