Polite Company

Polite Company

By Jane SmithSociety & Culture
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Polite Company episodes

  • Reading of "Sex, Love, and its Place in a Free Society" (Edward Carpenter, 1894)

    Reading of "Sex-Love, and its Place in a Free Society" (Edward Carpenter) 

    Edward Carpenter was a trailblazing British philosopher and gay rights activist.

    You may want to listen to this if...

    1. You sometimes wonder why casual sex is not fulfilling

    2. You value mental freedom and/or spirituality 

    3. You like to think about romantic love and relationships

    4 You are interested in revolutionary historical perspectives about sex and love




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    38 min
  • So you want to get out of the ghetto...

    It can be awkward to talk about socioeconomic disadvantage in polite company. The podcaster discusses strategies that youth can use to spring out of dangerous and impoverished neighborhoods. This podcast is based on personal experience.

    An unspoken sentiment is that it can require extraordinary effort to be able to afford to move to safer neighborhoods.

    Some would say that instead of leaving disadvantaged neighborhoods, youth should stay and make these neighborhoods better. This podcaster does not argue that position.

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    37 min
  • The Coronavirus Episode of Polite Company: Your Freedom to Not Wear a Mask is Impinging on My Freedom to Go Anywhere

    I'm fed up with this whole anti-mask sentiment. It is just making this pandemic stretch out longer. 

    Here is a list of the sources I mention in this episode:

    • "Did Chuck Woolery Say His Son Tested Positive for COVID-19?: The former game show host had previously said that the CDC, doctors, Democrats, and the media were lying about COVID-19.  Dan Evon. July 15, 2020. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chuck-woolery-son-covid-19/

    • "They thought COVID-19 was a hoax, until they fell ill. " Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani and Louise McLoughlin. NBC News. Aug. 8, 2020. "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/they-thought-covid-was-hoax-until-they-fell-ill-n1236183

    • "The results call for caution regarding antibody-based 'immunity passports,' herd immunity, and perhaps vaccine durability, especially in light of short-lived immunity against common human coronaviruses. Further studies will be needed to define a quantitative protection threshold and rate of decline of antiviral antibodies beyond 90 days." In "Rapid Decay of Anti–SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Persons with Mild Covid-19." New England Journal of Medicine.  July 21, 2020. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2025179

    • "Masks Do More than Protect Others during COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2." Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH,  Chris Beyrer MD, MPH,  Eric Goosby, MD. Running title: Masks Reduce Viral Inoculum of SARS-CoV2. In press, Journal of General Internal Medicine (August 2020). https://ucsf.app.box.com/s/blvolkp5z0mydzd82rjks4wyleagt036

    • "New Research On Masks Show They Can Act Like A Vaccine." Hesham Hassaballa, MD. https://medium.com/@drhassaballa/new-research-on-masks-show-they-can-act-like-a-vaccine-5dbde9398dd4


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      31 min
    • Black American Genealogy, Family History, and Trauma

      1. "Understanding Slavery Initiative: Africa before Transatlantic Enslavement." http://understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=315&Itemid=145.html

      2. Death rates in middle passage: "Between 1680 and 1688, an average of 23% of the Royal African Company's human 'cargoes' died en route to the Americas." http://understandingslavery.com/index.php-option=com_content&view=article&id=308&Itemid=153.html

      3. Death rate in the first year for field slaves was around 50%. "Death Toll from the Slave Trade." http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Slavedeathtoll/slaverydeathtoll.html

      4. The Project Gutenberg eBook, "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself, "by Venture Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10075/10075-h/10075-h.htm

      32 min

    About Polite Company

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    This is the podcast about all the things that we're told not to discuss in polite company.