Time To Say Goodbye

Free Mary Shawn

Long time listener who greatly missed Tammy and finds the current iteration of the podcast nearly unlistenable because of its now overwhelmingly masculine energy. By which I mean: a tendency to relentless prognostication; broad sweeping claims backed by little evidence; a tendency to speak with absolute certainty well beyond one’s domain expertise (in what world do a New Yorker politics writer and three professors have meaningful real-world experience by which to judge what would be politically efficacious?). I have nothing against Tyler, but I feel the show changed for the worse when Tammy left.

Tammy and Jay cover topics most media does not and with more nuance. The recent polyamory episode was weird: polyamory is basically mainstream in queer communities and with it is a focus on communication, honesty and non-hierarchical structures. It’s rooted in politics! I think what you’re actually annoyed with it bourgeois people co-opting polyamory and making it about personal growth. I mean, what did you expect?

These are middle-aged men who sound like me as a teenager, so afraid of anyone thinking they are basic. Sometimes entertaining but they need to stop trying so hard to be cool