Savage Love Episode 399
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.5 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.2 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:25.1 | So, happy belated Father's Day to all the fathers out there who listen to the Savage |
| 0:29.3 | Lovecast, a happy belated Father's Day to my own father, who I believe has just begun |
| 0:33.0 | listening to the Savage Lovecast, which freaks me the fuck out, dad. |
| 0:37.1 | Happy Father's Day, |
| 0:38.1 | turn it off, all right? And happy Father's Day belatedly to my husband, Terry, the other father |
| 0:45.4 | of our son. And to me, we don't make a big deal about Father's Day at our house. We don't |
| 0:50.5 | make a big deal about Valentine's Day. We don't make big deals about anniversaries. We're just not big dealmakers. |
| 0:56.5 | We have a little dinner party maybe for a birthday. And every once in a while, about two or three weeks after our anniversary, we look at each other and go, oh, fuck, it was our anniversary, wasn't it? Happy anniversary. And that's about as big a deal as we make. somebody's trying to make a big deal out of Father's Day though |
| 1:10.4 | anti-choice activists |
| 1:13.1 | we're always trying to make a big deal out of Father's Day, though, |
| 1:16.6 | anti-choice activists. We're always trying to make a big deal out of everything. They could find an anti-choice campaign to tie to Arbor Day, but they're tying an anti-choice campaign now to |
| 1:22.4 | Father's Day because when it comes to choice, when it comes to abortion, we have to remember |
| 1:26.5 | the real victims, the men's. |
| 1:30.5 | They're trying to frame Father's Day as a day of mourning for men who have lost children, children to which they were entitled because they had an orgasm, to abortion, |
| 1:42.0 | the women choosing whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. |
| 1:45.6 | And this was blowing up on Twitter in the week before Father's Day, trying desperately |
| 1:50.0 | to get this off the ground, including at the same time a campaign called the pill kills |
| 1:54.0 | that they're trying to get off the ground when actually the pill, hormonal birth control, |
| 1:58.1 | saves lives. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dan Savage, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dan Savage and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

