Hello and welcome back, Queens. It's your friendly neighborhood host Rose. And I'm Patricia. Welcome back, Queens.

Ah, so delighted to be back with you. Today, I'm pretty excited about what you suggested.

So I thought that we could discuss the concept of playing games and is it actually games or is it stuff that seems like dry

rules but it actually stems from the deep philosophy of FDS? Absolutely. In fact, we were having

just a little pre-show discussion about setting up what we were going to talk about and Patricia was

saying like, you know, we're going to have

an argument. And I was like, are we going to argue or are we really talking about the same thing?

And she's like, well, arguing is how you get to like deep reduce. And that's what science does as well.

Right. And then I was sort of reminded about my PhD is an interdisciplinary one. Part of it is

anthropology. And my therapist was always saying,

Rose, take dating as an opportunity to apply this sort of anthropological lens. She was like,

apply that sort of scientific perspective. The idea that there's not true objectivity, but try to

use your subjective lens to drill down into deeper objective truths.

Dang.

I know, right?

I love my therapist.

I miss her because she was like, you're good to go.

Like, if you want other therapists, help yourself.

But I think we've done what we needed to do, which is a real achievement moment for me.

But what does that mean?

What it means is like instead of coming in with this idea that like everything that the person does to you is directed at you specifically, maybe consider that these are like broader societal and social behaviors that have been modeled and enacted again and again.

So that for other people, it's almost like a script that they're reading through.

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