Bless This Mess
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, Marcia, and June dive into the tension between love and politics in light of a recent piece on Democratic women married to MAGA-loving men. Then, they talk about the implications of framing abortion as “safe, legal, and rare,” as Tulsi Gabbard did in the most recent Democratic presidential debate. Finally, the panel considers the lonely social media “It Girl.” Are influencers’ “getting real” posts truly authentic?
In Slate Plus: Was it sexist for Joe Biden to tell Elizabeth Warren at the most recent Democratic debate “I got you votes,” regarding her creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Other items discussed on the show:
- The Politics of Planned Parenthood, by Christina Cauterucci
- Who Would I Be Without Instagram?, by Tavi Gevinson
- Meghan Markle’s recent interview with ITV
- The Passion of Dan Choi, by Gabriel Arana
Recommendations
June: Jamie Barton’s Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Christina: Tegan and Sara’s memoir High School and album, Hey, I’m Just Like You.
Marcia: The podcast Call Your Girlfriend as well as its upcoming live show on Saturday, Oct. 26 in Washington.
This podcast was produced by Sara Burningham. Production assistance by Rachael Allen and Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.1 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, October 24th, the Bless This Mess Edition. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Christina Cotterucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast Outward. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Marcia Chathlin, a professor of history at Georgetown University. And I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcast Outward. I'm Marcia Chathlin, a professor of history at Georgetown University. |
| 0:21.9 | And I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. |
| 0:25.3 | Unfortunately, Nicole will be unable to join us this week. |
| 0:29.2 | We miss her. |
| 0:30.3 | But we have a couple great topics. |
| 0:32.4 | Before we get into them, though, I have some excellent news. |
| 0:36.7 | We have a new production assistant on board. Her name's |
| 0:40.6 | Rachel Allen. She comes to us from the Atlantic, and we are so happy to have her here. She'll also be |
| 0:46.2 | production assistanting for two other Slate podcasts, The Culture Gab Fest, and How To with Charles |
| 0:52.5 | Doohig. So get ready for a market improvement on all of these shows. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome, Rachel. |
| 1:00.2 | Okay, this week we are going to start things off with a chat about love and politics, |
| 1:05.8 | specifically what's going on with Democratic women married to Trump-loving men. |
| 1:10.7 | They exist. Perhaps some of them |
| 1:12.5 | listen to this show. Then we're going to talk about the idea that abortion should be safe, |
| 1:18.5 | legal, and rare, quote unquote, of phrasing that presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and former |
| 1:24.1 | Planned Parenthood President Lena Wend endorsed last week. |
| 1:31.0 | And our last topic is a little bit squishier. |
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