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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Wednesday, May 27th.

I'm Emily Bazelan.

I'm one of the co-founding editors of Double X, and I'm here with my colleagues Megan O'Rourke

and Hannah Rosen, who's joining us from

Washington.

Hey, guys.

Hi.

Hello.

We are going to talk about three things today.

President Obama's choice of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, definitely the big news

of the week.

A study about women's happiness and actually unhappiness.

And then our third topic will be the woman action figure in the movie Terminator

and kind of female action heroes in general and how they're faring in the movies.

Let's start with Judge Sotomayor.

She's from the Second Circuit.

She's been on the bench for a number of years.

First on the district court, she was appointed actually by the first President Bush and then elevated to the appeals court by Bill Clinton.

And Obama talked about various facets of her experience in praising her this morning.

Hannah, what was your

takeaway so far? I know that everyone's like desperately catching up to learn as much as they

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