Is Romance Dead?

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sabrina Strings is back on Getting Curious with this stunning revelation: romance is dead! But was it ever really alive? Sabrina and Jonathan celebrate Valentine’s Day with a conversation about the origins and pitfalls of romance. How do you know if you’re in a situationship with a f*ckboy? How did Playboy promote anti-romantic ideals? And what could a world where romance fails, and sexual love prevails, actually look like? Sabrina Strings, Ph.D. is Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her research examines race, gender, and embodiment in science, media, and medicine. She has been featured in dozens of venues, including BBC News, NPR, Vogue, and The New York Times. She is the author of the award-winning book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (NYU 2019). Her second book, The End of Love: Racism, Sexism & the Death of Romance was released in January 2024. Find her on the recently released Netflix docuseries The Black Beauty Effect. You can follow Sabrina on Instagram @YoginiBlack and Twitter @Sastrings. You can find more information about her work here. Her new book The End of Love: Racism, Sexism & the Death of Romance is available now. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producers are Chris McClure and Julia Melfi. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's face it. I'm not going to stop treating myself anytime soon and neither should you but what I should stop doing is paying for me time with whatever random credit card is in my wallet.
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0:21.4	rewards? Honey, is it like a gorgeous free flight that you would have had to have paid for, but honey you're saving that flight money?
0:29.0	Is it a gorgeous room upgrade?
0:31.0	Is it like a gorgeous like two bedroom suite instead of a one bedroom
0:34.7	suite so you're like in-laws or like your friend could stay over there in that room
0:38.7	so you don't have to like hear them doing whatever with what they're doing in your
0:41.9	guys's room is it like really
0:44.2	adulting oh I love adulting and you know what else I love is not waiting to make
0:50.2	smart financial decisions I also love paying my credit cards often full every month
0:55.2	because like yes good credit so let's like do try to do that and like making responsible decisions
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1:17.0	Regular listeners of How to Fail will know how obsessed I am with reality television and that's why I'm so excited that I get to talk to you
1:24.8	about the return of one of my favorite shows.
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1:54.4	Hey curious people, it's jothedin van Ness and welcome back to getting curious.
2:04.7	It is Valentine's Day season.
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