What do gender roles and whale legs have in common?
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To live life as wholly intentional,
Be truly unique and original,
Instead of conform
To the cultural norm,
You must leave behind what’s vestigial.
- amygdala
- gender roles
- dodgy evolutionary biology
- the “default male” assumption
- the commodity model of sex (and a debunking of it that Pace only read after recording the episode – sorry!)
- shame
- rudeness is “Shame Lite”
- guilt
- Paradigm glue: why people get angry at you for simply existing
- whale legs
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