The Weight Of Love
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Sugars revisit an episode in which they explored the fraught relationship between body image and romance. They're joined by the writer Lindy West, who has much to say on what it means to be a fat woman in our society.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Sugar is supported by... |
| 0:07.6 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:12.0 | Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Cheryl Strade. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh dear, so won't you please? |
| 0:29.0 | She has some little sweet days with me. |
| 0:37.0 | I check my bell by every day. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh and this sugar, using my weight. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:53.0 | Hi. |
| 0:54.0 | So this week our theme is the weight of love. |
| 0:58.0 | We're talking about how body weight impacts us in our romantic and sexual and love lives. |
| 1:04.0 | Which I think is a question a lot of our listeners have. |
| 1:07.0 | It's something I've thought a lot about, like most women in America. |
| 1:12.0 | And men. |
| 1:13.0 | And men. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay, fair enough. |
| 1:15.0 | I'll also say that what happens to men and male bodies in the public eye, |
| 1:21.0 | there's no comparison to what happens to women. |
| 1:23.0 | And there are two ways that this has been an interesting experience in my life. |
| 1:27.0 | One is that I myself have been very thin. |
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