Partner | The best name for your better half? | Word Bomb | S1 E7 | TVO Podcasts

Girlfriend, boyfriend, S.O., bae, better half, sweetheart, beau ... what's in a name? Pippa and Karina debate and dismantle all the names you may choose to call that special someone and discuss the social utility of the word partner - and its important LGBTQ backstory.

Episode #620 of Savage Love, titled “Bad Blood,” includes a monologue from Dan Savage on whether it’s okay for a straight person to use the word partner.

And, we’re pleased to share the full text of CBS commentator Charles Osgoode’s poem about POSSLQs (Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters) — a truly great contribution to the American poetry canon:

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
If you would be my POSSLQ.
You live with me, and I with you,
And you will be my POSSLQ.
I'll be your friend and so much more;
That's what a POSSLQ is for.
And everything we will confess;
Yes, even to the IRS.
Some day on what we both may earn,
Perhaps we'll file a joint return.
You'll share my pad, my taxes, joint;
You'll share my life — up to a point!
And that you'll be so glad to do,
Because you'll be my POSSLQ.


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