#51 Let’s Talk About Recess & the Construct, Girl

09/01/2026 1h 47min Temporada 2 Episodio 51

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Episode Synopsis

What starts as a nostalgic question about middle school lunches, video games, and the usual playground chaos slowly opens into something much bigger: how social rules form, why they stick, and which ones actually keep us safe.In this episode, we bounce from Mario Kart cartridges and yearbook cameras to roughhousing bans, gender expectations, school hierarchies, and the strange way unspoken rules shape who we become. Along the way we unpack why some social constructs exist for protection, why others are purely aesthetic, and why trying to “escape the system” often just recreates a new one with different rules.We talk about masculinity, femininity, power, safety, community, off-grid fantasies, generational fear, teachers who saw potential before we did, and how adults believing in us can alter an entire life trajectory. There’s humor, memory gaps, philosophical detours, and a lot of “wait, why is it like that?”