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My Mother's Reaction to Lesbianism with Writer/Comic Rebecca Donohue

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Writer/Comedian Rebecca Donohue told her mother she was a lesbian and her mother's cure included a trip to see The Vagina "Chronicles".

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1:11.1

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn, and Welcome to the Storyworthy podcast.

1:15.8

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Honest Finney.

1:26.9

Welcome to Storyworthy.

1:36.6

My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanes Finney, and we are coming to you from the Isle of Lesbos off the Greek coast.

1:42.9

Of Sikors, the Isle that gives lesbianism its name? Is that true? It's absolutely true.

1:44.2

And so go ahead. Tell me more.

1:56.7

Well, back in ancient times, the Isle of Lesbos was famously part of a story in which women, I believe, had rejected men completely for their warlike ways.

1:57.8

I want to live there.

1:59.6

I want to live there, too.

2:00.5

It's so stupid.

2:01.6

Of course, I don't want to live there. I want to live there, too. It's so stupid. Of course, I don't want to live there.

2:20.8

I want to live in the aisle of slutboes, which is somewhere near. It's in Florida, of course. Yeah, of course. Naturally, it's in Florida. Just off of Gainesville, I believe. It's the Isle of Slutbos. All right. So I guess we're here in Lesbos because our guest tonight, Rebecca Donahue, brings forth a topic.

2:22.9

My mother's reaction to lesbianism.

2:29.2

Yes, that's very specific because there's all sorts of people reacting to lesbianism all the time, even lesbianism that they are like in no way connected with.

2:33.2

My mother's reaction. Yeah, no, but I keep thinking like I'm a mother now, right?

2:34.3

I have a seven-year-old.

2:51.9

And if my daughter is a lesbian, I just feel like I'll know that. Right. Or that you won't go completely crazy. Well, in fact, I would encourage you. Are you kidding me? I wouldn't even, oh, I would not go crazy. Please. No, but I mean, you talk about a good group of people and supportive network to be around.

2:52.7

Yeah, yeah. I would encourage her being a lesbian.

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