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Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Season 8 Episode 10: Don't wanna be played no more

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Social Sciences, Sexuality, Science, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.7910 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ali responds to Leon’s PSA to women and shares her story of how she learned to deal with players. We discuss unlearning beliefs that this is just how guys are, recognizing what you have control of in a situation, and advocating for our own needs in relationships. WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The dateable podcast features real stories from real people of how they make modern dating work or not.

0:05.8

Each episode will not only offer you a new perspective on dating, but will also change the way you date.

0:11.8

I'm your host, U.A.

0:13.0

former dating coach turned dating sociologist.

0:15.6

You'll also hear commentary from my producer Julie Kraftchik and other surprise co-host.

0:20.3

Hey everyone! host.

0:29.0

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Datable, a show all about modern dating. So we have one of our most controversial episodes ever on the season. It was episode 3 called

0:35.2

PSA to Women. It featured a man named Leon and he wanted to tell all women how some men like him thought about women and dating and how to get women to sleep with him.

0:49.0

So he had very good intentions of coming on the show and spreading this PSA.

0:55.0

But we received so many emails and Instagram comments and whispers in our years as we're walking down the street saying I now want to be a

1:06.3

lesbian after listening to that show.

1:08.3

The tactics were definitely a little rough I would say. I don't know what the right word is but you know what's so

1:15.4

funny so we have Ali here I'm gonna introduce her in a second but we had a few

1:20.2

people comment and say why did you and Julie not like have a bigger reaction to what

1:27.5

Leon was saying. Honestly I think I was in shock for a lot of what he was saying because I think after Leon left the show we had

1:36.3

this very honest discussion Julie and I was like I actually don't think men think

1:41.0

like this no I think that's like a very small cohort of men do men think

1:45.0

like this. I think that's like a very small cohort of men who do and they I think of him as like a very New York kind of guy

1:50.0

and you're trying to date women in different boroughs, but I don't actually think men and San Francisco think like that.

1:56.0

I think like I was talking to a friend and her husband and we started listening to the episode.

2:01.0

He was like, I have never thought this

2:03.6

calculated about anything in my life and like yeah it's so calculated yeah so I

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