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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, August 9th, the circumspect circumference edition.

I'm Alison Benedict, managing editor of Double X. I'm filling in for Hannah Rosen, who's on vacation this week, and we miss her.

I'm joined in the New York

studio by Noreen Malone, staff writer at the New Republic. And hi, Noreen. Hello. And Jessica

Gross, who for a long time Gab Fest listeners will be familiar, a familiar voice. She's my

predecessor at Double X and currently a sleek contributor and freelance writer about town, who also has her first novel coming out in October called Sad Desk Salad.

Hey, Jess.

Hey, Allison.

Our three topics today are pregnancy depression, which remains a pretty taboo affliction.

It's not nearly as talked about as

postpartum depression. And this is something that Jess wrote about in Slate this week, so she's

here to talk about it. The second topic is the Olympics, and more specifically, how male and

female athletes' bodies have been shown, or some might say objectified by the media, and the case of a young girl in

Georgia who was being bullied in school for her looks and was then given the gift of free cosmetic

surgery.

But before we get started on those, I just want to mention that in our previous podcast,

Noreen brought up running skirts.

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