"...it always annoys me when there's some, like, viral tweet or something that's like, 'women apologize too much in emails and they should all write emails like men do, where they're, like, really abrupt,' and my response to that is always, A) I like being nice, and I don't think it's entirely a bad thing just because women do it more often, and B) if women are inclined to be overly-apologetic or self-effacing in communications with men generally, and maybe especially in workplace communications, it is because we have been paying attention and we have learned that (...) sometimes the best way to get [a male coworker] to listen to your idea is to make him think it was his idea. If we're acting in a way that reflects the fact that we know that, then, like, that's not ultimately our fault."
-Sarah Marshall, You're Wrong About podcast, "Quarantine Book Club: "Michelle Remembers" Week 5", Apr 2020
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"And I'm sure there's an extent to which we are hiding the bigger scary thing, which is like scary not in a little kids telling ghost stories kind of a way. So much as its not promising you that your humanity is going to snap and it'll be gone; it's telling you that the capacity of your human experience is more vast than you'll probably ever get to feel even most of in the time you have to be alive."
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Fly with us, lesbian seagull. This week Radiolab’s Lulu Miller brings us a story of queer nature and scientists in denial, featuring seagulls, penguins, rams, swans, dolphins, and—maybe the gayest animal of all—humans.
To learn more about the seagulls, and hear much more of Lulu’s story, check out Radiolab’s amazing new episode.
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"It's like eating meat: I'd like to believe that this was ethically produced. But like, let's be honest."
-Sarah Marshall from You're Wrong About on porn
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You're Wrong About did a very good basic breakdown of Stonewall, and my favorite part was how much they emphasized the place and importance of trans and gender non conforming folks in that era, in that space, and on that day. And how important these same people were for the community as a whole for decades.
I also like that they very, very gently push back on the day's place as The One Big Moment when there are so many other moments that made the movement. I like that they talked about how putting so much pressure on one event encourages people to put less legitimacy on other moments and people who actually do also deserve that closer look and respect.
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Sarah: Tell me everything you know
Michael: I just did.
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“I don’t condone murdering anybody, but if you did murder your abusive husband then I understand” - Sarah Marshall
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just learned Graham Bell was an asshole. not surprised but yikes man
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"I think that we have this dangerous tendency to look at behaviors that we don't like and prohibit or punish them. Wouldn't it be exciting if we were to look at the ways people behave in that are harmful to themselves and/or others and be like, 'I believe that this behavior is not a conscious and well thought-out choice, I think that you are doing your best, and your best could be better if we gave you more resources to work with and if we shaped our laws around the question of what it would take for you to flourish as a human being'."
-Sarah Marshall, You're Wrong About podcast, "The Prom Mom", Jun 2020
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[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]
Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.
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Put on your Docksiders for a stroll through history with Avery Trufelman, who shows us how Ivy style became “preppy,” and how preppy fashion escaped the campus and took over the world. We’re talking about clothing, class, race, and the American dream: you may be through with the polo shirt, but the polo shirt isn’t through with you.
Here's where to find Avery:
Articles of Interest on Substack
Articles of Interest podcast
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i don't know how to fully articulate this but it makes me a little sad every time a video essayist or podcaster just Assumes their audience has Obviously Heard About X and doesn't bother to explain who or what that is... like of course not everything's gotta cater To Me but like let's assume i DO live under a rock (or rather: i'm autistic and european) and have never heard of this musician and have no idea what place they hold in popular media. ok thank you please continue with your essay
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