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Hello, and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for April 5, 2013, the Mantraesting Edition.

I'm Noreen Malone in the New York studio, subbing in for Hannah Rosen, who is often an undisclosed location basking in warm spring break weather with her family. And I am joined today in New York by All-Star GabFester Emeritus and Slate contributor, Jessica Gross. Hey, Jess. Hi, Noreen. Thank you for coming. And we are also joined by Rookie of the Year, Gabfester Seth Stevenson, who is also a slate contributor. Hi, Seth. Hello, Noreen. Hello, Jess. I'm sorry. We are all in one place today, which is really exciting. Our three topics today are stories

of addiction and whether we treat men and women who tell them differently. Buzz Bissinger and

Cat Marnell are the two people that we're talking about. Cooking memoirs, have they become anti-feminist?

And finally, Pinterest for dudes. Why is this a thing?

So our first topic today in the latest issue of GQ, Buzz Bissinger, the magazine writer most

famous for Friday Night Lights. He wrote an article coming out as a shopping addict, addicted to

Gucci specifically. He writes,

I have an addiction. It isn't drugs or gambling. I get to keep what I use after I use it.

But there are similarities. The futile feeding of the bottomless beasts and the unavoidable

psychological implications, the immediate hit of the new that feels like an orgasm and the inevitable

coming down. So meanwhile, this week also brought news that Cat Marnell,

who was a columnist for Exo Jane and Vice, she sort of famously wrote about her addiction to PCP,

among other things, got a rumored $500,000 book deal to write about said addiction and other things.

This was not greeted with a ton of warmth in the blog sphere and the Twitter sphere, a lot of shit and fruit.

So, Jess, do you think that Bissinger's shopping addiction and his decision to write about it is being treated differently than her addiction and her decision to write about it because she's a young woman and he's a middle-aged man?

Well, let me say up front that there are many differences between Businger and Kat

Marnell besides the fact that they are a man and a woman. I mean, Buzz Bissinger has had a

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