Oh hey, it's your stepmom who's just doing her damn best, okay kids.

Allie Ward, back with another episode of Allie G's.

Hey, are you a dude who's listening to this?

Because congratulations.

You're probably one of the good ones.

So you're curious and empathetic and you give a shit about things that may affect you less than other people.

But also, you know what chances are like your mom or brother or the person you're in love with is deeply affected by beauty culture.

So good on you for understanding the whole thing better.

Okay, but your job isn't done.

Tell a few more guys to listen to this because this is about you too.

We'll talk about body image issues for men, how gender ideals screw with us all.

And maybe how you can be more of an ally to something that's really confusing and conflicting.

For so many people, now do you own lipstick or have you stepped on a scale or do people expect you to look a certain way and it's very orcsum?

Well, buckle the fuck up this episode is going to take everything you think and feel about getting ready in the morning and it's going to put it in a food processor and then make eye contact with you and calmly turn the dial up to high.

But first, let's do some quick business.

So thank you to patrons who support the show.

If you listened to O'ology last week about eggs, patrons get to hear an extended version with 13 extra minutes of a side that I cut out in the last minute because there were just too many damn a side.

So there's a lot of extra content up this week.

Also, patrons can ask questions to theologists and if you're up for some allergies, merch.

You can go to allergiesmurch.com sales help support the show also Portland.

I'm coming for you September 15th.

We're doing a one day event there called camp allergies.

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