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Episode 55: The Great Mating Debate

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The Revision of the Narrative

The book addresses that problem directly in a way that none of the other sort of allegories of equal love I think of them do. She says like explicitly like what I want is equal love and that's why she has I think all of these narratives are fairy tales of heterosexuality that she repeatedly rejects. There's also stuff at the end where um you know she has all these horror stories about her friends who engage with people badly or there's one scene from a movie where a heroine like runs out and gives the man like a clean shirt and she's like I never want to be like that.

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