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Welcome to the double X gab fest for Thursday, November 26th, the Kate Blanchett's Mink Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen. I have a new job. I'm now co-host of the NPR podcast Invisibilia.

Yay, which I'm so excited about. I'm in the New York studios. That's another cool thing with June Thomas, who's the editor of Outwards, Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. It's so nice to look at you. I'm looking face to face like in Carol when everyone looks at each other all the time. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. We didn't look at each other long enough or smolderingly enough. I'm working on my Cape Blanchet. Yeah. Okay. So you've probably guessed one of our topics. I'll get to it in a minute. Our first is women in Hollywood. We are going to talk to Maureen Doud about her cover story in this weekend's New York Times Magazine. Second, we're going to talk about the suicides in Palo Alto. It's the capital of boundless optimism. So why are so many kids killing themselves?

And then finally, Carol, the new Todd Haynes movie starring Kate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Okay. In this week's New York Times magazine, Maureen Dowd talks to dozens of women in Hollywood and a few men about what she calls the pervasive sexism of the movie industry.

We have Maureen here on the phone to talk to us about her story.

Hi, Maureen.

Hi, Hannah.

So the baseball caps.

Yes.

That was like a motif.

That was like a little simmering, angry motif that like ran through the story.

What does the Hollywood dude in a baseball cap?

Like what does that represent to you?

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