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Welcome to the Double X-GsGab Fest for Thursday, September 3rd, the Fat Pigs, Slavs, and Disgusting Animals Edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, a writer for Slate in the Atlantic. I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah.

So before we get going today, I want to remind you all that we are having a live show Monday, September 21st at Willie Mammoth, which is one of my favorite theaters in D.C.

You can get tickets at slate.com slash live.

So come bring your friends.

I've been told that not enough men are buying tickets. I feel that that's wrong. So men, just come. Like, we're not scary. Come. What's the problem? Come. Bring your girlfriend if you want. Bring your mom. Bring your sister. Bring your boyfriend. Bring your bro. Yeah. Bring your bro. Exactly. You might learn something. Just come. Anyway, so now again, before we get going, we really seem to have irritated listeners with that Colin show, like in so many different ways. They are mad at you guys for disrespecting working mothers. So you can feel shame about that. They're mad at all of us for how we talk to those guys, like about feminism and about that one guy who tried to clue in the young women in his office on their upspeak and what it was doing to their reputations.

So do you guys have any, you know, regrets or just let it go?

I always have some regrets.

So that's kind of my default status in life. However,

it was interesting to me that people often would complain about diametrically opposed things.

Like, people hear what they want to hear, I think. So, yeah. And as Simon and Garfunkel put it,

disregard the rest. So, yeah. I was actually heartened by how many people wrote in because

people wanted to express themselves about that show. And I thought that was awesome and made me want to do another one like that.

Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Donald Trump. It's about time we talked about him. He's called women fat pigs, slabs, disgusting animals. Fox's Megan Kelly called him on all that, and then he said she must

be having her period, although he didn't exactly say that. He didn't say that. We'll get there. We'll

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