All right, welcome listeners to episode 101 of No Year Enemy.

I'm Matt Sitman, your podcast co-host, and I'm not here as always with my great friend Sam Mother Bell.

But I do want to introduce this episode, our first back in the saddle, after celebrating our 100th.

Thank you again to all the listeners who send in questions and all of our friends who helped

us celebrate.

This episode is something a little different.

In the lead up to the election we wanted to have some

conversations just about well what we're talking about this campaign season,

the issues, the themes that stand out to us especially as they relate to the concerns of this

podcast. And for the first one of these conversations, we wanted to have on our

great friend Dorothy Fortenberry, who's been on the podcast many times. Most of you will be familiar with the written for The Handmaid's Tale, the Climate Change Show Extrapolations, as well as she writes for

slate and she wrote for me often at Commonwealth and was one of my favorite writers to work with.

So we wanted to have on our friend Dorothy to talk about gender.

There's so much going on with Vance, Trump discourse about masculinity, of course.

This also is the first presidential election after Rovi. Wade has been overturned.

And it's also an election in which so-called kitchen table issues, the price of eggs, are on everyone's

mind and we know that who does the shopping, who picks up the kids, those kinds of distribution of

labor in families often are very gendered. And Dorothy's just such a thoughtful and

insightful and interesting person to talk about these matters with.

In fact, it's a pretty unguarded conversation.

So listen to it charitably.

And also, I think it's worth saying that in this kind of conversation,

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