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The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

DoubleX Gabfest: The Bond Girl Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, News

4.2897 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2010

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Hanna Rosin and Jessica Grose of DoubleX and Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker discuss South Korean skater Kim Yu-Na's Bond girl routine, Michelle Obama's childhood obesity campaign, and Judith Warner's new book on medicating children, We've Got Issues.


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0:00.0

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0:06.4

Hello and welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, February 25th.

0:10.8

This is Hannah Rosen, the co-editor of Double X.

0:13.6

I'm here with the lovely Margaret Talbot from the New Yorker in Washington, D.C.

0:17.4

And we have Jessica Gross, our managing editor of double X in New York with us.

0:21.2

Hello.

0:21.7

Hello.

0:22.7

Today, our subjects are going to be the women's figure skating, which is the drama of which is on this week.

0:28.7

And we're also going to talk about Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign for kids.

0:33.3

And then Judith Warner's new book called We've Got Issues, which is about medicating children.

0:38.2

So let's start with the women's figure skating, which was so full of drama last night.

0:42.6

I was really into the kind of Asian national showdown between Kim Yun-na, who's the favorite

0:48.5

South Korean and then Mao Asada, who is another favorite from Japan.

0:54.0

And then Kim Yun-na, I was completely into the whole Bond Girl thing.

0:57.6

And I'll tell you guys why.

0:58.9

But before I give you my spin my long theory about why I love the Bond Girl,

1:02.5

maybe you guys can sort of jump in here and say what you thought about that,

1:06.3

blowing the gun and the wink.

1:09.2

Well, it was memorable. And it was certainly better than the Russian ice dancers dressed. the gun and the wink her routine.

1:14.6

Well, it was memorable and it was certainly better than the Russian ice dancers dressed as the Aborigines as a sort of, you know,

1:17.1

cultural touch point.

1:19.3

But yeah, you know, she's very, she's kind of sexy and womanly as figure

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