15 Types of Relationships People Of Different Genders Can Have With Each Other

[melannen]

As I have gleaned from my extensive study of "podcasts in which people of different genders have unscripted friendly chats about specialized subjects."

1. Heterosexual monogamous married couple.
2. Heterosexual monogamous married couple and their friend they took in after her divorce who is slowly learning that she can move out any time she likes but she can't ever leave.
3. Committed boyfriend and girlfriend living in domestic polyamorous bliss with boyfriend's wife.
4. Ex-spouses (and former childhood sweethearts), now transcontinental partners and best friends.
5. Not-directly-romantically-involved members of what is supposedly a science club but is increasingly sounding like one large polycule.
6. Two people in a love triangle with a cat (and their extremely tolerant friend.)
7. Two midlife career women and their young mustachioed minion.
8. Friendly coworkers.
9. Fellow graduate students.
10. Two people and the silent, never-mentioned absence of the third person who was removed for sexually harassing one of the first two.
11. Three strangers who started talking about UFOs in a bar one night and didn't manage to stop until one of them moved to a different country years later.
12. Three academics in the same field but vastly different levels of academic authority/privilege collaborating on a hobby project in which the least academically privileged is the project lead.
13. Two non-romantically-involved people who frequently go undercover in situations in which they are presumed to be a couple.
14. Yeah she may be half his height, but she could take him in a fight.
15. One year in three or four, when it's going to be a good mast year for the fruit of the Rimu tree, the male finds a high place over the fjord, makes a bowl, and begins booming and chinging. After the summer solstice, the female will follow the sound to find him and mate, perhaps several nights in a row, before she builds a nest in the hollow of a tree. The rest of the time, they actively avoid each other.

(....a no prize to anyone who can name the podcasts.)

Comments

[seekingferret]

4 is pretty clearly Jay and Miles.

I'm rooting for 1 to be Throwing Sheyd.

[petra]

I would like the cheat sheet of answers to this, if you're willing to share it, posted with spoiler warnings for people who want to play the game.

[thedarlingone]

Is 2 KUEC?

[azurelunatic]

14: And her co-host Matt Effin' Wallace on the right.

[rushthatspeaks]

13 is ONRAC, I presume. Who I keep worrying are actually going to do something that permanently harms them, although I guess if ayahuasca, urine therapy, and Scientology haven't they're pretty difficult to permanently harm.

[carmarthen]

I want to know what 15 is so I can listen to it.

[satsuma]

The only one of these I’m currently listening to is #4, but I’d be interested in picking up #5 & #12 as well if anyone knows what they are

[amaresu]

I miss Thinking Sideways.

[wolby]

Given the number of podcasts I subscribe to (I gave up trying to keep them under control at the 300 mark and I'm pretty sure I passed 400 at some point) I'm surprised I don't know a single one of these. We must have pretty divergent podcast habits.

[dhampyresa]

Mustachioed minion is a good phrase. I don't think I know any of those, though.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

#5 sounds like the perfect relationship :D