Savage Love Episode 647

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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A woman and her husband are having a difficult year. And to top it off, he divulged that he likes to wear women's clothes, and would like to raid her closet. She worries that this is just the first step toward a transgender identity. Do straight men ever like to wear women's clothes? (Spoiler: Yes.) A woman's conservative cousin has started working at a "Crisis Parenting Center," that gives misinformation about abortion. Should she confront her? On the Magnum, Dan chats with his soul brother the Broadway god Andrew Rannells. Discussion topics: black sheets, home decor, male unicorns, and Andrew's new memoir- "" And, here's a conundrum. A vegan is into leather. Discuss. 206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl at and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% off your first purchase. Thanks to Roman for supporting Savage Lovecast. Roman is a men’s health company that offers remote online diagnosis for ED and convenient monthly delivery of medication. For a free online, visit This episode is brought to you by Mercari, the selling app that makes it super easy to sell and ship your unused things. Sell it, ship it and get paid with Mercari. You can find Mercari on the App stores or on .

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0:00.0	You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.
0:06.6	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:16.1	well, there's nothing you can't last on the Savage Podcasts.
0:24.5	When you're right, you're right.
0:26.2	That's usually something a writer, a longtime podcaster, sometimes pundit, and all
0:30.0	around asshole enjoy saying, not so much this time.
0:34.2	Trump is polling well enough in some swing states that there's a chance he could lose
0:38.1	the popular vote and win the White House, I wrote in September of 2016, because of the
0:43.8	electoral college. Our founding slave-owning father saddled us with this anti-democratic
0:48.3	electoral college because it looked so nice up there on the mantle with that anti-democratic
0:52.3	U.S. Senate they got us. I pointed that out in real time with Bill Maher recently that the Electoral College was designed by and for slave owners to protect slave states and got a lot of pushback from the bald eagles and flags and Maga Hat crowd on Twitter. But this isn't something I pulled out of my ass. Put a lot of things out of my ass over the years. This isn't one of
1:10.9	them. As Sean Elling wrote on Vox on November 12th, 2016 after Trump lost the popular vote and
1:16.7	won the White House, the electoral college was created because in a direct election system,
1:21.7	that would be the system that exists in all other democracies and at all other levels of our
1:25.1	democracy. That would be the system where the person
1:27.7	who gets the most vote wins. Anyway, in a direct election system, the South would have lost
1:32.5	every time because a huge percentage of its population was slaves and slaves couldn't vote.
1:37.5	But the Electoral College allowed states to count slaves, albeit at a discount, the three-fifths
1:42.7	clause. And that's what gave the South
1:44.8	the inside track in presidential elections. And thus, it is no surprise. Elling goes on that
1:49.9	eight of the first nine presidential races were won by a Virginian. Virginia was the most
1:54.8	populous state of the time and had a massive slave population that boosted its electoral vote
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