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Hello, and welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, November 19th.

This is Hannah Rosen, co-editor of Double X.

I am here today with the lovely Margaret Talbot from the New Yorker.

And remotely, we have Emily Bazelon and New Haven, who's also the co-editor of Double X. Welcome, ladies.

Hi, guys. So today our topics are going to be, of course, Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, which is probably the most talked about political book, biography, since I don't know what. I don't know what. Maybe Hillary's book. Maybe Hillary's book.

Even more so, though, I feel like. More, more, I think. More. And we are going to talk very briefly,

give an update on the Stupak amendment on the health care reform bill. And then we are going to talk

about precious, which is a movie we all saw

yesterday and have a lot to say about. So let's start by talking about Sarah Palin going rogue,

which is subtitled in American life. One of the key questions that arises in this book for me

is that there are many moments where she is, say, struggling with the good old boys network and the Neanderthals, as she calls them. And, you know, she's like breastfeeding and somebody at the other end of the radio studio is looking at her in horror. Or, you know, Frank Murkowski says that he would nominate her for the state senate seat, but she has kids and she should be home taking care of her kids. And, you know, and then he ends up nominating his daughter, who also has two kids.

So there's just a lot, a lot of passages.

She talks about Title IX.

And yet she seems to give no, you know, credit to feminism.

You know, she still hates the feminists.

That's the sort of lines that are thrown out there as they're sort of the enemy along with the press and everyone else.

So how do you guys kind of make sense of this?

Margaret, do you have any thoughts on this question about Sarah Palin and her feminism?

Well, first of all, first of all, title line, all that title line thing.

Because she is such a, this really comes through what athlete she is and how, you know, sports are a metaphor for her in the way that they more

often are for male politicians. And she's so competitive. And, you know, she talks about running a lot

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