A-List Actress Bingo
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Waves, while Hanna is out, June and Noreen talk with host of Amicus and court reporter Dahlia Lithwick to talk SCOTUS term, E Jean Carroll, and more. Then, they discuss Big Little Lies with host of Decoder Ring Willa Paskin. Finally, Hanna rejoins for an announcement.
In Slate Plus: Is they way the media handled the E Jean Carroll accusations against President Trump sexist?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.9 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, June 27th, the A-list actress Bingo edition. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hannah Rosen is on vacation this week, though we'll be hearing from her in the final segment, which we recorded last week. But here with me in the Brooklyn studio is Noreen Malone, the editorial director of New York magazine. Hey, Noreen. Hi, June. What's up? Not much. Doing a bit of sweating. I'm sorry, perspiring or glowing, whichever is appropriate. |
| 0:41.7 | I hear you're a summer person. |
| 0:43.8 | We were just chatting about this before. Yeah, of course. |
| 0:46.7 | Sunshine and the park and the beach. |
| 0:49.3 | You're a monster. Okay. |
| 0:50.8 | On today's show, we'll be talking with Dahlia Lithwick about the 2018 Supreme Court term as it comes to an end and what it means to women. |
| 0:59.3 | Then we'll talk with Willa Paskin about season two of Big Little Lies, the HBO drama whose cast is packed with A-List actresses. |
| 1:07.5 | And in our final segment, we have an announcement. |
| 1:13.4 | And Noreen, what is our, is it sexist question that we'll be discussing in our fourth segment, which is for Slate Plus members? |
| 1:17.6 | Our question is, is it sexist the way that the media has covered E. Jean Carroll's essay |
| 1:24.3 | and subsequent appearances alleging sexual assault by Donald Trump in the 1990s. |
| 1:31.1 | Here's a little sample from that conversation. It's interesting. I don't see people questioning |
| 1:36.7 | the actual thing. It's like, does this matter in the face of all this? And that seems to me a sort |
| 1:42.8 | sexist reaction. |
| 1:45.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:45.8 | That, you know, this alleged crime that he has committed along with a lot of other alleged |
| 1:51.0 | crimes would be less meaningful. You know, just one. |
| 1:54.7 | You can hear more by starting a free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves |
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