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Schauer Thoughts

Let’s Decenter That Gender! Pt. 1

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

Education, Comedy

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Well you heard it here folks, we’re decentering gender this week in the communal shower. What does it mean to decenter? What is gender? Are pronouns “real?” Sit back, relax, and enjoy the musings of a single, 30 year old, childless lesbian. Resources Is Gender Fluid? - Sally Hines What is gender, anyway: a review of the options for operationalizing gender https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19419899.2020.1729844#d1e351 Concrete vs abstract language https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/student-success/tutoring/handouts-writing/editing-and-mechanics/Concrete-and-Specific-Language.pdf#:~:text=But%20first%2C%20it's%20important%20to%20understand%20what,refer%20to%20intangible%20qualities%2C%20ideas%2C%20and%20concepts. Pronouns - What Are They? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pronoun If there are any resources I’m missing please let me know and I will update this list ASAP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi guys. My name is Sarah Shower and this is Shower Thoughts, a podcast for left and right brainers, middle brainers, everyone with a brain with some nerves.

0:17.3

Everyone who's ever sensed something's off.

0:20.5

Everyone who's been too close to a situation,

0:23.5

pondered too hard,

0:24.9

if you're thinking, you're doing,

0:27.0

you're moving, you're sensing, you're feeling,

0:28.6

this podcast is for you.

0:30.8

Now, what we're going to discuss today is decentering gender.

0:34.2

I already did an episode on decentering men,

0:40.5

I guess more aptly dec-centering the patriarchy. Now we're moving it up a level, the concept of gender, right? Now, I will get into it,

0:49.2

but gender is a concept. It is abstract. It is different from sex, which discusses like biological features.

1:00.7

And I will get into that and distinguish between the two. But before we get into the nitty-gritty,

1:06.9

the gender of it all, what's new with me? Well, I was just incredibly upset, but Rebecca and I

1:13.6

chatted and I kind of, well, I kind of, with Rebecca's permission, kind of forcefully spoke.

1:20.7

Was that okay? Yeah, always happy to be someone's people can vent too. Okay. And we love a good vent

1:27.3

session. Yeah, because I was screaming in traffic. And we love a good vent session.

1:28.1

Yeah, because I was screaming in traffic.

1:30.6

And I, just to mention, when I was driving here, the thing is, is traffic was flowing

1:34.0

quite nicely.

1:35.2

But, like, I was just, like, screaming at the top of my lungs.

1:38.3

You know, so it's, I'm happy to have gotten it out.

1:41.3

I will stew on it later.

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