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The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

DoubleX Gabfest: The Power-Pinners and Pink Handguns Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, News

4.2897 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Listen to Slate’s show about the Komen Foundation vs. Planned Parenthood, the new parenting book Bringing Up Bebe, and the social site Pinterest.


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0:00.0

You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.

0:03.1

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:11.6

Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, February 9th.

0:16.1

This is the Power Pinners and Pink Handguns edition.

0:19.3

I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X. I am in the D.C. studio, and I'm joined today in the New York studio by Jessica Gross, also an editor of Double X. Hi, Jess. Hi. And also Noreen Malone, who writes for New York Magazine online. How are we? Hi, Norex. Hey, Hannah. How are you? Good? Today we're going to talk about three things.

0:37.8

The first is the Komen Foundation's decision last week to stop funding Planned Parenthood,

0:44.7

which was the big lady news of the last couple of weeks.

0:47.3

The second thing is a new book, which argues that French parents are awesome and we are not.

0:53.0

And third, we're going to talk about Pinterest.

0:55.0

I don't even know what to call Pinterest. It's like it's not really a social networking site.

0:58.9

It's like an image sharing.

1:01.2

Image sharing site. It is social network. They call themselves a social network.

1:04.7

Yeah. It's a place to share and organize beautiful things in fact.

1:08.6

Thank you, Noreen. We're going to talk about a place to organize beautiful things and facts.

1:13.2

So let's start with the Komen Foundation.

1:15.2

This was a super interesting thing that happened last week, where the Komen Foundation,

1:19.5

which is mainly known for its work in breast cancer.

1:22.4

And you know the race for the cure and all the pink things that one sees everywhere all

1:27.4

the time are basically spearheaded by the pink things that one sees everywhere all the time

1:27.9

are basically spearheaded by the Komen Foundation, and they decided to take their money

1:32.5

away from Planned Parenthood.

1:34.1

And the question was, the small question was, was this a political decision, or were they

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