DoubleX Gabfest: The Do You Like The Way We Sound? Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
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4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin joins New Republic staff writer Noreen Malone and DoubleX managing editor Allison Benedikt to discuss Elizabeth Wurtzel’s mid-life confessional in New York magazine; male disdain for vocal fry; and the reaction to Hillary Clinton’s health scare.
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| 0:23.1 | Hello and welcome to the Double X podcast for Thursday, January 10th, that do you like the way we talk edition. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X, talking to you from the Washington, D.C. studio. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm joined today by the other Double X editor, Alison Benedict. Hi, Allison. Hi, Hannah. And Noreen Malone from the New Republic.C. studio. I'm joined today by the other double X editor, Alison Benedict. Hi, Alison. Hi, |
| 0:38.7 | Hannah. And Noreen Malone from the New Republic. Hi, Noreen. Before we start, I want to announce to you |
| 0:45.2 | that Double X is having a live podcast about which we're very excited. It's going to be at sixth and I in |
| 0:50.4 | Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, February 13th. And we're going to have a cocktail |
| 0:55.1 | party beforehand, which you can also buy tickets to. You can buy tickets either on the |
| 1:00.2 | Sixth and I website or on the left on Slate's homepage, or we will also put the link to |
| 1:05.9 | buy tickets on our podcast page for this week. Our three topics for today are first, we're going to talk about an essay in New York |
| 1:14.2 | magazine by Elizabeth Wurzell about what it's like to never grow up in New York City. |
| 1:19.5 | Second, we're going to talk about the vocal fry wars and why older men are suddenly annoyed |
| 1:25.3 | at the way young women speak. |
| 1:27.5 | And third, we're going to talk about Hillary Clinton at the end of her tenure as Secretary of State. |
| 1:32.7 | So let's begin with Elizabeth Wurzell, who I imagine we've all been reading for years. |
| 1:37.8 | She's the author of Prozac Nation. |
| 1:39.8 | And this month in New York Magazine Women's Section, The Cut, Elizabeth writes, the latest in her series of essays Plumbing Her Own Life. This particular one was about turning 44, but still living in New York as if she were 24. In other words, she refuses to grow up. Wurzell's essay is part of the subgenre of what Noreen Malone, because she's the youngest among us, called the middle-aged confessional. I don't know if you actually use that term, but in my head, when I read your email, I remembered it. The old fart memoir. Why? Or how did Tina Fey put it? Like, what people in Hollywood say about women who turn 40, like, is she still talking? |
| 2:19.1 | Not what I met. |
| 2:20.3 | Not what I met. |
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