Bruce Feiler
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first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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Something You Should Know · Why Humans Crave Rituals & How Music Transports Your Mind · 25 May 2026
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And I feel ashamed and confused.
And other women said, well, that's happening to me.
Older women got on and said, yeah, my husband did that too.
And I sort of kept it to myself.
And the empowerment of being on the internet and feeling confidence is a lot of what's created these, what I call new rituals around the world.
And so it's a way of saying, we're going to take even this thing that is difficult and we are going to turn it into a ritual.
It's not a celebration.
of what happened, but it's a celebration of the community that will help you get through it.
And I wanna say a couple of things in response to that.
The most important thing and the first thing I will say is that pre-scripted foreign language rituals are, that's exactly what people are rebelling against in a lot of ways.
And yet there is, as you say, a kind of comfort and meaning in those rituals.
I talked to a woman, she started something called the Purple Pundit Project.
which actually hosts non-traditional Hindu weddings and in many cases for LGBTQ families.
And she said, you know, the most important guests at the wedding in a lot of ways are not the couple or not even the parents, it's the aunties.
And she said that a successful ritual has to pass the auntie sniff test.
And I like crazy love this.
She's like, it can't be so new that it doesn't have some of the trappings of an old ritual in order to feel like a ritual.
And I think that that's a great point.
On the other hand, if it's entirely an old ritual, like in her case, the one that she went to where she said, I went to a three day wedding when I married, this is an Indian woman marrying an Indian man.
And she said it was traditional, but my husband had an LGBTQ brother,
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