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Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

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4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kate talks about the controversial list of 141 rules The Cut/NY Mag came out with that were positioned as a revised etiquette guide for modern society. First, she dives into some of the histories of western etiquette, snorkels Emily Post & the gang, reflects on her time in cotillion, learning to be ‘ladylike’ in pop culture, and her issues with classism and ‘old vs. new money’ convos. She then ventures into some of her takes on the list and peppers in listener emails about their responses to the article and shares additional rules they’d implement in their personal etiquette guides. Enjoy!

Original article: https://www.thecut.com/article/tipping-rules-etiquette-rules.html

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast.
0:03.6	I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.
0:06.2	Today, I wanted to talk about kind of a hot topic this week.
0:11.0	I had another episode that was going to come out today, but I might put it out like
0:14.2	midweek next week.
0:15.6	But for today, I wanted to elaborate on kind of a hot topic based on a list of rules,
0:23.0	kind of an etiquette guide that the cut came out with, which is an arm of New York
0:28.8	magazine.
0:30.3	And it's a new list of social guidelines that has definitely inspired intense debate
0:35.5	across the internet.
0:36.5	And to be fair, I think it's designed to, at first, your instinct is almost as a satire,
0:43.3	but I think it's purposefully hyper-ballically written to spark a lot of dialogue to get
0:49.7	people like me talking about it.
0:52.7	And I don't think it's in satire and it's entirety at all.
0:56.7	I think it's just highly subjective written by people that work in media and in urban setting
1:01.6	that have like a hyper-specific worldview that in many cases seems wildly out of touch
1:07.0	to people in the rest of the world.
1:10.2	But beyond that, I mean, I think it's pandering to outrage culture.
1:14.4	I mean, it's going to get clicks.
1:17.2	It's going to get views and whatever.
1:20.0	Sometimes I don't feel like feeding into it, but I actually think this is part of an
1:22.9	interesting broader conversation.
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