Sex & Politics #28: Micro Version

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Dan Savage

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Relationships

4.7 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of Sex & Politics, Dan speaks with Rob Henderson, author of "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class." Rob's heart-breaking memoir goes into his wrenching childhood, and also his concept of "luxury beliefs," - sanctimonious ideas that the upper classes advocate for, but usually don't follow themselves, and ultimately hurt the poor and working class. Henderson includes non-monogamy as a luxury belief, and as you can imagine, Dan ain't havin' it. This is a 20 minute taste of Sex & Politics. The Magnum version of this conversation goes on for over an hour- and that's where Dan and Rob go toe-to-toe over traditional vs. open relationships. To hear the rest of the interview, subscribe to the Magnum at Savage.Love. Hear their polite argument, and tell us what you think in the comments!

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0:00.0	Hey micro savage lovecast listeners this week we're giving you a little taste more like a
0:05.1	heaping serving actually of the kind of convos magnum subs get to enjoy here on sex and
0:10.0	politics our bonus podcast for our paid subscribers.
0:13.4	We're sharing this part of my conversation with author Rob Henderson with you.
0:17.7	I hope you enjoy it and we hope it inspires you to think about becoming one of my subs.
0:23.0	You're listening to sex and politics at savage.
0:27.0	Love. Sex and politics. You know, I don't know who was more surprised.
0:36.5	Rob Henderson when we asked him to come on the show or me when Rob Henderson agreed to come on the show. Henderson writes the Rob Henderson agreed to come on the show.
0:43.3	Henderson writes the Rob Henderson newsletter on Substack
0:46.2	and he is the author of Troubled,
0:48.5	a memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class,
0:52.2	which is out now.
0:53.7	Rob had a rough early life, which we talk about before Rob wound up at Yale,
1:00.1	where he arrived not with a chip on his shoulder but with an outsider's eye.
1:04.4	He graduated from Yale four years later with, depending on your point of view,
1:08.0	either a chip on his shoulder or a stinging and legitimate critique of the elites, which Rob is now by
1:15.1	identity his education and his success as a thinker and public intellectual definitely
1:20.4	a part of whether he likes it or not.
1:23.2	This is Sex and Politics.
1:24.8	I'm Dan Savage.
1:25.8	This is a special bonus podcast we do
1:28.3	for Magnum subscribers of the Savage Lovecast.
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