Full episode
46: Sissies
Act One

Anti-Oedipus

This American Life producer Nancy Updike on a family where the father was one kind of sissy and the son was another kind, and how the family was destroyed despite the fact that no one wanted it to be. (23 minutes)

Song:

“I'm In Such Pain From Loving You” by Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris