Why Tho? The Podcast goes behind the scenes of Lizzy Acker's advice column for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Listen each week as Lizzy and producer Destiny Johnson dig into reader questions and dilemmas. Look for the Why Tho? column every Tuesday, podcast every Thursday and a daily advice newsletter that also includes advice from Dear Abby, Ask Amy and others at oregonlive.com/newsletters. Find Lizzy's past advice columns at oregonlive.com/whytho.
About Lizzy:
Lizzy Acker is a reporter on the Life & Culture team and the author of the advice column, "Why Tho?" She covers everything from ice cream to Oregon's legal psilocybin program to car-less travel. She was born in Oregon and began her journalism career in high school as a writer for the Corvallis Gazette-Times' teen page, "Hardly Minor." Her book of short stories, "Monster Party," was published in 2010.
About Destiny:
Destiny Johnson is a three-time Regional Murrow Award-winning social media producer at The Oregonian/OregonLive. She started her career in television journalism in her home state of Florida before moving to the Portland NBC affiliate station KGW. She has been at The Oregonian/OregonLive in 2022. She now focuses on nerd-centric and community-based stories. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism with a focus in photography from the University of Florida in 2016. She also thinks it’s weird to write about herself in third person but likes plants, crocheting and hanging out with her dog when she’s not doing the journalism thing.
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Why Tho? The Podcast goes behind the scenes of Lizzy Acker's advice column for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Listen each week as Lizzy and producer Destiny Johnson dig into reader questions and dilemmas. Look for the Why Tho? column every Tuesday, podcast every Thursday and a daily advice newsletter that also includes advice from Dear Abby, Ask Amy and others at oregonlive.com/newsletters. Find Lizzy's past advice columns at oregonlive.com/whytho.
About Lizzy:
Lizzy Acker is a reporter on the Life & Culture team and the author of the advice column, "Why Tho?" She covers everything from ice cream to Oregon's legal psilocybin program to car-less travel. She was born in Oregon and began her journalism career in high school as a writer for the Corvallis Gazette-Times' teen page, "Hardly Minor." Her book of short stories, "Monster Party," was published in 2010.
About Destiny:
Destiny Johnson is a three-time Regional Murrow Award-winning social media producer at The Oregonian/OregonLive. She started her career in television journalism in her home state of Florida before moving to the Portland NBC affiliate station KGW. She has been at The Oregonian/OregonLive in 2022. She now focuses on nerd-centric and community-based stories. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism with a focus in photography from the University of Florida in 2016. She also thinks it’s weird to write about herself in third person but likes plants, crocheting and hanging out with her dog when she’s not doing the journalism thing.
Why Tho? The Podcast: Does using the biggest bathroom stall make you a jerk?
Why Tho? The Podcast
34 minutes
1 year ago
Why Tho? The Podcast: Does using the biggest bathroom stall make you a jerk?
Join The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss whether or not using the accessible bathroom stall when you don't need to makes you a jerk, the sliding scale of femininity and more! For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast!
More:
Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/
Lizzy’s advice also appears in our weekly advice newsletter. Want to get it? Subscribe now: https://link.oregonlive.com/join/6fk/signup
Have a burning question for Lizzy? Send her an email at lacker@oregonian.com or find her on threads @lizzyacker!
You can reach producer Destiny by emailing her at djohnson@oregonian.com or find her on threads @hello__destiny!
Or better yet, text Lizzy your question as a Why Tho? insider. Sign up here: https://www.oregonlive.com/advice/2022/03/read-more-why-tho.html
Why Tho? The Podcast
Why Tho? The Podcast goes behind the scenes of Lizzy Acker's advice column for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Listen each week as Lizzy and producer Destiny Johnson dig into reader questions and dilemmas. Look for the Why Tho? column every Tuesday, podcast every Thursday and a daily advice newsletter that also includes advice from Dear Abby, Ask Amy and others at oregonlive.com/newsletters. Find Lizzy's past advice columns at oregonlive.com/whytho.
About Lizzy:
Lizzy Acker is a reporter on the Life & Culture team and the author of the advice column, "Why Tho?" She covers everything from ice cream to Oregon's legal psilocybin program to car-less travel. She was born in Oregon and began her journalism career in high school as a writer for the Corvallis Gazette-Times' teen page, "Hardly Minor." Her book of short stories, "Monster Party," was published in 2010.
About Destiny:
Destiny Johnson is a three-time Regional Murrow Award-winning social media producer at The Oregonian/OregonLive. She started her career in television journalism in her home state of Florida before moving to the Portland NBC affiliate station KGW. She has been at The Oregonian/OregonLive in 2022. She now focuses on nerd-centric and community-based stories. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism with a focus in photography from the University of Florida in 2016. She also thinks it’s weird to write about herself in third person but likes plants, crocheting and hanging out with her dog when she’s not doing the journalism thing.
