DoubleX Gabfest: The Un-Retouched Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2012
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Listen to Slate’s show about young women getting their tubes tied, last week’s date rape episode of Louie, and Seventeen magazine’s new photo touch-up policy.
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| 0:23.2 | Welcome to the Double X podcast for Thursday, July 12th, the Unretouched Edition. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X. |
| 0:30.1 | I am alone in the DC studio, but joined in New York by Alison Benedict, another editor at |
| 0:34.8 | Double X. Hi, Allison. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, Hannah. |
| 0:36.9 | And Noreen Malone, who is newly a |
| 0:39.3 | staff writer at the New Republic, or the New New Republic, or the New Something New Republic. I don't |
| 0:45.1 | really know what to call the New Republic yet. The New Republic. The New Republic. The New Republic. |
| 0:49.5 | The New Republic was the first place I ever worked. I have such huge fondness for the New Republic. I have huge fondness for Frank Forer, who has been and is now, again, the editor of the New Republic. So I have so much affection for the place. But it's like odd to me that there's, I don't know, it's like back, it's in my past. And now it's got this new, you know, sort of future, Facebook, Facebook inspired future. So it doesn't feel like the same thing, but I guess it is the same place. But now it has Noreen, so it's going to be even better. It's new to me, yeah. It's new to you. And they're going to have offices in New York and D.C. right? Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Anyway, our three topics for today. One is about young women getting their tubes tied and why that's so difficult to do. |
| 1:32.3 | The second is a slightly alarming sex scene in Louis, the Louis C.K. |
| 1:37.4 | Half Hour, what is it, a sitcom? |
| 1:39.3 | I don't know what genre it is. |
| 1:40.8 | Well, we can talk about that. |
| 1:42.1 | We can talk about this. |
| 1:43.4 | And the third is about 17 |
| 1:45.7 | magazines decision to, to not touch up photos. That's not exactly right, to not touch up a photo a |
| 1:53.6 | month, but we'll get into the details of that too. So let's start with the tubes tying. |
| 2:00.1 | Noreen, you've had your tubes tied, right? |
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