DoubleX Gabfest: The Fapstronaut Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin joins Slate senior editor Dan Kois and New Republic staff writer Noreen Malone to discuss the Philadelphia “house of horrors” abortion story, the movement of men who want to stop masturbating, and the crisis of American child care.
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| 0:19.7 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello and welcome to the Double X podcast for Thursday, April 18th. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X. |
| 0:35.6 | I am joined in the D.C. studio today by Dan Koycece, senior editor at Slate. Hi, Dan. Hello. And we're joined in New York. You're trying to be extra manly in your hello. You had me at hello. Yep. And we're joined in New York, hi, Noreen Malone of the New Republic. Hi, Noreen. Hi, I don't think I can top that greeting. |
| 0:56.0 | I think you have to be extra feminine in your greeting. |
| 0:57.9 | Hi. |
| 0:58.4 | Hi, Anna. |
| 1:00.1 | Anyway, our three topics today are first, the House of Horrors abortion clinic in Philadelphia and why the media failed to cover it. |
| 1:08.1 | Second, a new anti-masturbation movement makes me laugh just saying it. And third, |
| 1:13.6 | the dismal state of American child care. So, dead children and masturbation always go well together. |
| 1:21.5 | So I was trying to bring some levity into things, but thanks for. Yeah, thanks for bringing it low right away. |
| 1:26.2 | Okay. Let's start with the horrible abortion story. |
| 1:28.8 | So Kermit Gossnell is a doctor who operated what's come to be known as the House of Horrors Abortion Clinic in Philadelphia. |
| 1:35.7 | The clinic went unchecked for a good two decades until 2009 when a woman finally died on his table. |
| 1:42.6 | And investigators also became suspicious that he was giving out prescriptions to oxycotton and other drugs. |
| 1:49.2 | So what they found there was pretty horrifying, disgusting conditions. |
| 1:52.8 | We, you know, the flea infested cat is something that comes up a lot in the description. |
| 1:57.7 | And then also they discovered in talking to his staff that he was a man who had perfected techniques for killing fetuses born after 24 weeks, in some cases, pretty much alive. He and his staff have been charged with several counts of murder. Then this opened up a bigger media and culture story of why did the liberal media fail to report on this? Is it because they were uncomfortable with a story |
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