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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, January 23rd, the well-heeled, middle-aged

lady edition. I'm Hannah Rosen in the freezing cold Washington, D.C. studio, and I'm joined in New York by June Thomas, writer and editor for Slate. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone, who is as of today an editor at New York Magazine. Congratulations, Noreen. Thanks. Congratulations. You are more important than you were yesterday or maybe less

important. I don't know, but congratulations. But differently important. Differently important.

Okay. How about we settle there? Before we get into the meat of our show, I want to announce that we

are having a live Valentine's Day show. We did this last year. It was really fun, really successful.

If you want to get tickets, please go to slate.com

slash double XDC. That's slate.com slash double XDC. And you can buy tickets there. It's a show in

Washington, February 13th at 6th and I. We're also having a cocktail hour beforehand. And you can get

tickets to that at slate.com slash double X cocktails. That's slate.com slash double X cocktails. We look forward to seeing you. Our special guest is going to be the editor of the date lab, which is a fabulous long-running Washington institution run at the Washington Post magazine where they set up two strangers on a date and then they rate each other. It is a Rosenplot's

family household. David and my daughter read it every single week out loud and it's just really

fabulous. So I'm glad to have the editor talking about that column. Okay, let's start with our show. First,

women writers get harassed, threatened and stalked online. is the internet just another place where women are not welcome.

Second, how television is dealing with the age of gay normal. We will talk about the new HBO show

Looking, which premiered on Sunday, and The Foster's, a show about a lesbian family and their house full of kids, which is on ABC family.

And finally, Michelle Obama at 50, She has a big birthday bash. She

looks great. She's very popular. Is she a good role model for the rest of us middle-aged

American ladies? Okay. Let's start with harassment. Double X writer Amanda Hess recently wrote a

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