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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, April 8th.

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

I am here today with the wonderful Jack Schaefer, media critic for Slate.

Hello, Jack.

Hello.

And in New York, we have Jessica Gross, managing editor of Double X.

So we are kind of like a combination sports illustrated maxim today. We have a sex, violence, and sports edition of the Double X Gab Fest. We are going to begin by talking about a cover story in this week's New York magazine, which is called the Half Hooker Economy, which we've all been led to know about thanks to Tiger Woods and all of his half hookers,

and we'll explain what that means. Then we're going to talk about female violence, whether

there's a surge in violent women of certain ages. And then we're going to talk about women's

basketball and particularly Brittany Greiner, who is the sort of new star of the women's basketball

world, college basketball, that is.

So let's begin, of course, with sex. So we have learned of this new thing called Halfway Hooker, as the writer of the story writes, Woods exposed the grazing ground of the halfway hooker and her natural habitat, the nightclub.

And this story features one of his mistresses or half-hookers

or whatever we want to call them, Rachel Yucatel. Jess, do you want to tell us what a half-hooker

is or a bottle girl, which is the great expression? So the way that the writer of this New York

magazine article Lisa Todayo explains it is that these incredibly rich guys don't want a prostitute because that's too easy.

You just buy them and there's no thrill of the chase.

But they don't want someone who's just a civilian because then a civilian could tell all

our friends and blab it to everyone.

So these quote unquote cry and have emotions.

Exactly.

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