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Welcome to the Double X-Gab Fest for Thursday, November 28th, the Thanksgiving edition.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

I hope you're full and contented or on your way there. I'm Hannah Rosen, alone as always, in the D.C. studio, and I'm joined in New York by Double X editor Alison Benedict. Hi, Alison. Hi, happy Thanksgiving. Thank you, thank you. And Slate's outward editor, June Thomas, a foreigner who perhaps we don't say happy Thanksgiving too because she doesn't like America. Hey, I'm an American citizen and I love America and I also like doing not very much on Thanksgiving. But happy Thanksgiving, everyone. When did you become an American citizen? About two seconds after I was eligible to do so. Oh, really? Excellent. Congratulations. 13 years ago or so. Yeah. So you've been an American

citizen longer than I have, I think. Really? You're getting this bit. So, okay, before we start,

can you just indulge me? Can I start by recounting this super fun feminist moment? I recently

participated in this debate in Toronto, our men obsolete. I just want to report how much fun this was. So if you're ever having the like feminists or drippy moment, it was just really fun. It was like me and Maureen Daud versus Catlin Moran. She's not pronounced Caitlin Moran. It's Catlin Moran. Camille Paglia and we just had it out. Isn't it Pahlia? Pollya. Oh, sorry, Camille Polly on Catalan.

If we're pronouncing everyone's name right.

You just had it out and you sort of, you poo-poohed me when I asked who won. But who won? We won. Me and Maureen won. And it was actually like a great try for me because we started out with 86% of people against us because the resolution was written, are men obsolete?

And I just, like, I was an old high school debater,

so I just, like, pulled that viciousness out of me and, you know, did this kind of like voodoo of a final statement. And it was really fun. I mean, it was just fun. And then we just all went out drinking because we're really, I know I said on Twitter like, we're girls so we don't care. But we actually kind of like it was much more fun to go drinking afterwards. Like we didn't care that much about the debate, although it was really, really fun. Can we see this anywhere? Is it on? Yeah, I should post like just a little bit of it on our blog because it's actually really fun. And everyone was like really funny in their own special way. Like Maureen is funny in her way. And Catlin was funny in her way. and Camille was, like, everyone was kind of, you know, funny and had like had a lot of person. It was very good.

It was really delightful. Yeah. So usually it's like a debate with Tony Blair or like somebody about, you know, the future of Iran or something. So, you know, so anyway, we have kind of a low bar for fun. So pluses for the giggles. Yeah, it was good. Okay, let's move on. Three topics. The first, the feud between the Chaney Sisters. In an epic family feud just in time for Thanksgiving, lesbian and married sister, Mary publicly criticizes her sister Liz, who's running for Senate in Wyoming for her stance on gay marriage. Second is Goldie Blocks, a new startup toy company that wants

to encourage girls to be engineers, runs a clever ad using a Beastie Boy song. In the process,

they piss off the Beastie Boys, many feminists, and many engineers. And third, Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving and Hanukkah this year are crashing into each other. We'll talk about

whether it's just annoying or really, really annoying, and whether we're giving Thanksgiving too much credit as everyone's favorite holiday.

Okay, the Cheney's, God do I love this story. The Chenees have always been a remarkably tight family.

The siblings are friends. They've always rallied behind their father. And then earlier this month,

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