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Hello, and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, June 10th. This is the shrink it and wax it edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, the editor of Double X. I'm here in the Washington, D.C. studio with the lovely Kate Julian, another

double X editor. Hello, Kate Julian. And we are joined in the New York studio by the lovely,

terrific Jessica Gross, another double X editor. Hello, Jessica. Hi, Hannah. So today we are going to

discuss a new cover story in Atlantic, which is called How to Land Your Kid in Therapy. We are also going to discuss

the tragic case of Casey Anthony, the Florida mom who was accused of killing her toddler daughter.

And then we are going to discuss hairless men, the terrible epidemic or maybe the terrific

epidemic of hairless men. So let's begin with this story, how to land your

kid in therapy. This was written by Lori Gottlieb, who wrote the book, Marry Him, and also

the Atlantic story, Marry Him, which was quite controversial, which urged women of a certain

age to settle and get married, and which really made a lot of other women irate and defensive about

their single woman's self.

So now she's come out with this other story, which is basically about the millennial generation.

We've tried so hard to make them happy, to give them good relationships with their parents.

They don't have these mean moms who make, you know, they don't have wirehanger moms.

And yet she, who's a therapist, Lori Gottlieb, finds that these children are still in her office in therapy, complaining about the empty hole in their soul. So, Jess, since you are a member of this generation, I have so many thoughts both about this story and also about the answer to the question of millennial happiness. But I would like to get

your visceral response to this story just because you're the target audience. Right. Well, I did have a

visceral response to this piece and it was that it was mostly incorrect and or just talking about

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