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Nancy and Sarah discuss a recent viral essay in NYT magazine called “The Trouble With Wanting Men.” Nancy had a meltdown reading this story, while Sarah saw romantic problems she recognized as well as behavior designed to fail. The two ladies talk about a vogue for female bitchery, a lack of grace in women’s voices, and whether men and women can ever repair the anger and resentment that’s erupted between them — at least online.

Also discussed:

* The time Nancy’s mom bought Black Sabbath PARANOID on 8-track

* That time Ozzy peed on the Alamo

* diddle-diddle-diddle

* Sarah propositions Kat Rosenfield, mispronounces her last name (again)

* Maybe that Mars/Venus guy was onto something

* Sarah wept through the Kavanaugh hearings

* “Why didn’t you tell me you had a uterus?”

* Girlboss versus YouPorn; YouPorn wins

* Cormac McCarthy lunges from ambush

* Sarah negs Nancy, proves that negging works …

* Open marriages, oy

* “Bratty sub”

* Nancy does not want a man to bend to her whims

* A debate over the word “thrill”

* That Texas Monthly flood essay, damn

* Nancy gives advice to overheated feminists

* Sarah waxes sociological about equality and same-sex relationships

* “hermeneutic labor” is …?

* All snuggle, all the time

Plus, what Sarah wants Nancy to read her on her deathbed, Pedro Pascal is too much with us, Christopher Hitchens on Bill Clinton, and much more!