Pooptacular

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Everybody poops and we're finally talking about it all: Period poops. The pleasure of getting regular. Checking your stool as an indicator of health. Eliminating poop shame and stigma. The pleasure of the bidet. And Dr. Susan Stryker on the unnatural social construct of sex-segregated public bathroom.

Reading List

Everybody is constipated by Maggie Koerth-Baker at FiveThirtyEight

The Lily on documenting their poop for the duration of the month

“America has softened on stool.”

Period poops

Oprah was on this tip back in 2005 / clip

Tushy, SquattyPotty, Poo Drops

Bristol stool scale

Mona Chalabi on stress and rectal bleeding

Susan Stryker: Everybody poops. No one should be stigmatized for it.

Stalled project

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.0	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:05.2	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:07.0	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:08.8	On this week's agenda, we talk about all matters fecal,
0:12.8	aka the process of elimination.
0:16.2	That means gendered stigma against pooping,
0:19.2	psychologically induced constipation,
0:21.4	a shout out to Oprah's splish, splish moment,
0:24.0	why white men poop the most times per week,
0:26.6	period shits, rectal health, and the power of the bidet.
0:30.0	Plus, we talk to Dr. Susan Stryker
0:31.9	about the fight for truly inclusive
0:33.6	and functional public toilets.
0:35.6	Call Your Girlfriend.
0:42.6	It's time you had the talk.
0:46.6	Give your reasons.
0:50.3	Say it's not her fault.
0:54.2	Ready you just met somebody new.
1:00.7	Tell her not to get up.
1:03.0	Hi, bro, bro.
1:05.2	Hello, I feel like you should say hi, poopoo today.
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