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Welcome to the Double X podcast for Thursday, November 1st, the hipster sexism edition.

This is Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X.

I'm here in the DC studio with Katie Waldman, who's an assistant editor at Slate and a frequent blogger at the Double X Factor. Hello, Katie. Hi. And we are joined in New York, hopefully not flooded out by Noreen Malone of the New Republic. Hi, Noreen. Hey, Hannah. I am safe and found. I got very, very lucky during the hurricane. Good. So you're not like perched on a rock calling in with wind blowing like the newscasters do.

No. very, very lucky during the hurricane. Good. So you're not like perched on a rock calling in with wind blowing like the newscasters do.

No. They always find the most like rugged, handsome newscaster, you know, to have his hair wind swept. And it's, you know, it all seems very romantic and dramatic.

Okay. Our three topics today, since we are coming up on the election, we are going to talk about the war on women. What was that all about? And what do we do moving forward? The second is the recently defined phenomenon of hipster sexism and what we think about it, whether we even understand it. And the third is that gruesome New York nanny murder case and how it was treated by the media.

So let's start with the election.

I'm excited about the election.

This election was unusual because it brought up not just the usual abortion issues, but a whole host of new women issues like contraception.

That was the first surprise that came early on.

Then the concept of legitimate rape, which I had never personally thought of in quite that way.

Then the latest iteration, which is the question of whether women vote with their hormones or their fluttering eyelashes or whether any brains are involved in the fact that women would more likely to vote for Obama than men.

So I'm going to start with Katie here. What's your view on the war on women? Like having sat through

elections, do you feel like this has been a particularly hostile to women moment or what do you make of it now that it's winding down?

I think that war on women is kind of an inflammatory way to

describe what's happening. But if you look at the policies that are popular now in the Republican

Party, they're definitely not friendly to women. And some of them, as you mentioned, like have been

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