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where every item is only 3995. Save $8 on your first order when you go to Shudazel.com and enter the promo code, Double X. Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, May 17th, the Bear Chested Edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X here in the Washington, D.C. studio. And I'm joined in New York today by Libby Copeland, who is a regular writer for Double X. Hi, Libby. Hi there. And who is also a

double X podcast version, we might say. This is her first appearance on the Double X podcast. So we're

very excited to have her. And a regular Norin Malone, who is a writer for New York Magazine's

Intel blog. Hi, Norin. Hey, Hannah. Today we are going to talk about the latest fight over

attachment parenting, which was prompted by Time Magazine's very provocative cover of an attractive woman breastfeeding an almost four-year-old child. Then we're going to talk about President Obama's old girlfriend letters, which came up in an excerpt of the upcoming Obama biography by David Marinus at Ranan, at Vanity Fair. And third, we're going to talk

about whether a nine-year-old can be labeled a psychopath, which was a subject of a recent New York

Times Sunday magazine story. So let's start with the attachment parenting. Before I even get into

this topic, can I ask you guys a question? Do you find it irritating that Time magazine stories

are not available online? Like, until actually someone sent me the PDF, the story itself, which was about Dr. Sears, and anybody who's had a child has come across Dr. William Sears and his various baby books because there are millions of them. So surely you've read one of them, either the breastfeeding book or the baby book. It's essentially a profile of the father of

modern attachment parenting. And it was actually quite good and really interesting. But I had

digested the whole flap about attachment parenting before I read the actual story because I had to

wait for somebody to send it to me in PDF form. I think the flap became a flap over breastfeeding

and how old you can breastfeed purely because people had only seen the cover.

They had not actually read the piece inside.

There were like three sentences maybe about breastfeeding.

It was such a minor point.

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