“Surprised you called me a feminist”

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

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4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A Very Special Father’s Day episode. First, some words on saying the wrong thing. Then at 4:40, Anil Dash (@anildash) explains why he doesn’t retweet men, and we discuss the (incredibly light) burden of being a woke person with relative priviledge. Next at 31:26, New York Times writer Claire Cain Miller (@clairecm) joins me and my dad (@samcox) to talk about how to raise a feminist. Lastly at 50:46, Some words on words, and shout-out to a hero from the GOP congressional baseball shooting in Alexandria, VA: Crystal Griner. You can reach the show on Twitter: @crooked_friends or via email: [email protected]. Let us know if you have a question or situation you’d like to be featured on the show. Please, consider patronizing our sponsors! • Upside.com, where business travelers can save by combining airline tickets and hotel booking into one easy step. Use offer code “FRIENDS” to get a $100 Amazon gift certificate on your first itinerary. • Framebridge, a simple, on-line way to frame the things you love. Get 15% off your first order at Framebridge.com with offer code “FRIENDS.” • Ring Floodlight Cam, the ultimate in home security. Visit ring.com/friends to get $150 off a Ring Security Kit.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox and welcome to with friends like these, a show about difference
0:08.2	and conversations and conversations about difference.
0:12.2	Sometimes the conversations are awkward.
0:14.8	This week they're not, in part because I know the guests pretty well.
0:19.8	In fact, one of the guests I've known my entire life, that would be my dad, Sam Cox.
0:27.4	He's on because I wanted to talk to Claire Cain Miller, a writer for The New York Times
0:32.6	about raising a feminist son and a feminist daughter for that matter.
0:37.7	And I thought my dad would be a good expert on the subject, quite frankly.
0:44.1	Not only did he raise me a feminist, but he's one of the strongest feminists I know.
0:49.4	And he was raised a time when suffice to say that wasn't a thing.
0:54.8	But our first guest is a Neil Dash.
0:58.0	I've known a Neil not quite for my entire life, but maybe for all of my online life.
1:03.8	He has been blogging and active participant on social media since before really there
1:09.5	was such a thing.
1:10.7	In fact, he worked at Moveable Type, which is one of the companies that basically invented
1:15.7	blogging.
1:16.7	They definitely invented the software that people use for blogging.
1:21.6	And I wanted to talk to him about a few things.
1:23.8	And in fact, we recorded a whole 30 minutes of conversation that has to do with blogging
1:28.8	and commenting and toxicity online.
1:32.5	Before we got to a subject that I didn't think that we would talk about quite frankly,
1:36.2	but it became, well, it's what I'm going to feature in the show.
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