The Miseducation of Daddy – The Deeper Thinking Podcast

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

On intimacy as restraint, emotional fluency as miseducation, and the algorithmic performance of care. A slow unlearning of what it means to feel legibly.

What does it mean to be taught how to survive, not through love, but through legibility? In this episode, we examine the appearance of Jane Goodall on Call Her Daddy, not as a celebrity guest but as a case study in how therapeutic media platforms render pain aesthetically useful. Drawing from the work of Lauren Berlant and Judith Butler and contemporary theories of emotional performance, we ask: when did coherence become more important than truth?

This is not a takedown. It’s a reframe. A meditation on restraint as legacy, intimacy as performance, and the dangers of a culture that rewards women not for their truth, but for their narrative symmetry. We reflect on cruel optimism, surrogate ethics, and the algorithmic enforcement of coherence.

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We do not mourn by naming. We mourn by refusing to perform.

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