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Hello and welcome to the Double X-Gab Fest for Thursday, September 6th, the Mom in Chief Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, editor, Double X.

I am joined in New York by Alison Benedict, the other editor of Double X and Noreen Malone of the New Republic.

Hi, guys.

Hey, Hannah. So our three topics today

are we're going to talk about Michelle Obama's speech of the Democratic Convention and the state

of the first lady in general. We're going to talk about my new book, The End of Men, which comes out

next week and the few excerpts that have come out over the last couple of weeks. And finally, we're going to talk about the new movie, The Bachelorette, which comes out this

weekend, but has had a tremendous success on iTunes.

And we promise that unlike the last time, we are not going to do a lot of spoilers because

we got a lot of complaints about that.

So we'll be very cautious and careful, unlike the heroines of this particular movie, who are anything but cautious and careful. So we'll be very cautious and careful unlike the heroines of this particular movie,

who are anything but cautious and careful. So let's start with Michelle Obama. In Michelle Obama's

speech this week at the Democratic Convention, she tried to locate her and Barack Obama

and their biography squarely in the struggling middle class. But she also did something else,

which is make you forget Michelle the fashionista, Michelle the angry black woman. And she concluded with,

in the end, my most important title is mom in chief. I can't really tell you guys how much I hate

that phrase, mom in chief. And yet my overwhelming

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