Couples Therapy

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

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4.2 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, Marcia, Nichole, and June discuss the success of the SoulCycle boycott and ask why some boycotts bite more than others, and why this one is getting so much attention. Then, they talk about Showtime’s docuseries Couples Therapyand how it combines the armchair judgment of reality TV with serious and intimate revelations about gender, race, and relationships between a therapist and her patients. Finally, the panelists share their reads of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s profile of Marianne Williamson for the New York Times Magazine. Is a New Age spiritual leader a good choice for a political leader? In Slate Plus: Moms Demand Action has been at the forefront of recent gun-safety victories, but is it sexist for “the moms” to be the ones who step up and demand change in the wake of mass shootings? Email your topic suggestions and responses to [email protected] or tweet @christinacauterucci, @tnwhiskeywoman, @drmchatelain, @junethomas with your thoughts. This podcast was produced by Sara Burningham. Production assistance by Cleo Levin and Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Coupleps Therapy Edition.
0:03.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, September 12th, the Couples Therapy Edition.
0:14.0	I'm Christina Kaudrucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward.
0:20.0	I'm June Thomas, the senior managing producer of Slate Podcast.
0:24.0	I'm Marsha Chapman, a professor of history at Georgetown University.
0:28.0	And I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit.
0:32.4	Hi everyone.
0:34.0	So happy to hang out this week.
0:36.0	We have just a quick update on some of our topics from last week.
0:40.0	First of all, I just got an email, like a press release from SAGAstra, the union that film and TV
0:46.3	actors are in.
0:47.8	And apparently the union is now working on developing standards and protocols for intimacy coordination, what we just talked
0:55.3	about last week.
0:56.3	They have a working group, I guess, that is trying to develop policies to protect all the actors
1:01.3	in the union and to help intimacy coordinators have sort of a standard way of interacting with productions.
1:07.0	So I'm sure our podcast was the reason for that.
1:10.0	Obviously. We made a lot of social change there. We also got a lot of good emails about our
1:16.7	segment on Elizabeth Warren and quote unquote electability and quote unquote
1:21.3	likeability.
1:22.7	One person that I'm not sure listened to the segment,
1:24.8	but just sort of came out and said electability
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