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Podcast: Sex Ed with DB: smart, science-backed sex education
Episode: Sweet Home Alabama with Becca Rea-Tucker: Rom-Com Vom
Description: This week, we're joined by Becca Rea-Tucker—aka The Sweet Feminist—to break down Sweet Home Alabama, the rom-com that wants you to root for a gaslighting ex with a glassblowing hobby. DB and Becca dig into the movie's deep-fried nostalgia, messy relationship dynamics, and the way rom-coms love to dress up coercion as fate. They unpack emotional manipulation in a southern accent, the myth of "the one," and why Melanie's real love story might've been with her friends—or *literally* anyone else! GUEST DETAILS Becca Rea-Tucker is a reproductive rights advocate, baker, and author whose work m...