Male Suffering Under Patriarchy with Jacob Tobia, Age Is Just A Number, and Fibromyalgia
Just Between Us
Allison Raskin, Gabe S. Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Allison's pregnancy update! Then, we answer a listener's question about if age is just a number (when she, younger, approached him, older). Next, they're joined by author Jacob Tobia comes by to speak about their book "Before They Were Men" and the rhetoric around men being co-survivors of patriarchy instead of solely beneficiaries. Finally, Gabe discusses some more information he’s uncovered about his ongoing chronic illness.
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| 0:00.0 | just between us hey just between us hey just between us hey hi hi hi i'm gave done i'm a writer relationship coach |
| 0:18.2 | and i am on the cusp of being in my third trimester of pregnancy ah hi i'm gave done i'm a writer relationship coach and I am on the cusp of being in my third trimester of pregnancy. |
| 0:22.3 | Ah! |
| 0:23.5 | Hi, I'm Gabe Dunn. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm a writer, bicon, bisexual icon, wink, and I'm not. |
| 0:30.5 | Okay, we were just talking about this before, but we were talking about what does it actually physically feel like to be pregnant? |
| 0:40.0 | And I was saying, is it feel like you're bloated or what does it feel like? |
| 0:44.4 | So we know with my OCD, it's very hard for me to accurately describe physical symptoms. |
| 0:50.5 | It's like not so much that I'm like hyper aware that my stomach is bigger I think it's more just like because it is bigger other things are happening so like I have back pain or my energy level is lower like the other day I made this huge mistake where I did a 30 minute workout in the middle of the day, and then I walked to get lunch. |
| 1:13.0 | Oh, no. |
| 1:13.9 | And I flew too close to the sun. |
| 1:15.5 | Who did I think I was? |
| 1:17.1 | An Olympic athlete? |
| 1:19.0 | And then I came home, and I was, like, totally wrecked. |
| 1:22.2 | Like, I could have done either of those. |
| 1:24.7 | But to do both of them at the same time was a big mistake or back to back, right? |
| 1:30.9 | And then I have a lot of a, I got like, I want my boobs to come up. |
| 1:35.9 | Like my boobs feel very heavy. |
| 1:38.8 | So I'm more aware of my boobs than my stomach, I'd say, unless like he, he's like, he, he, I feel him sometimes, |
| 1:46.1 | but I'm still not at the place of, like, oh, man, he just punched the shit out of me. |
| 1:51.8 | Yeah. When does that start? Soon. But also I have an interior placenta, so that means my placenta |
| 1:58.7 | is, like, right in the front. So it's like a little padding. Oh, very nice. Yeah. So my doctor was like, so you'll feel it more in your sides and back. And I was like, cool. Oh, boy. It's also interesting because maybe he's just not a kicker, you know? Maybe he's just like a chilling. It's just a chill guy, yeah. Yeah, just a chill |
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