Jeff Bezos, Justin Fairfax, and All the Democratic Women

Pantsuit Politics

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We touch briefly on the looming return of the government shutdown. Then, we talk about lots of men in power who are in varying levels of trouble: Jeff Bezos, Ralph Northam, and Justin Fairfax. In our main segment, we talk about the Democratic women running for president and whether or not media coverage of them has been sexist. Included in that discussion are our thoughts on Amy Klobuchar's staffing issues. Outside of politics, Beth watched Black Mirror and Sarah talks about her mother-son book club. Recommended Resources: Government Shutdown Looms Again Jeff Bezos Medium post National Enquirer Denies Extortion National Enquirer Strikes Deal Justin Fairfax and Ralph Northam Compliment the Other Side: Mark Takano We are so thankful to our wonderful patrons who support the show. If you'd like to join the ranks of our faithful supports and get access to bonus content, visit our Patreon page. Thanks to our sponsors: Nurx, Pact, and ThirdLove. Want more of our voices in your ears? Check out our recent interviews on From the Front Porch and Currently Reading. Our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), is available! You can purchase it now - for yourself, for friends, for your representative, for your senator, for everyone! We appreciate all of you who are spreading the word about the book to your local bookstores, libraries, and social circles. Thanks to Kelly for starting the #IfYouGiveARepABook initiative! We are beyond thankful to her for her creative and drive. To learn more about the initiative, click the links above or email Kelly at books4reps@gmail.com. If you're on the fence about buying... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The best part about right now with regards to how we are all assessing female candidates
0:09.2	and how the press is covering female candidates is that there are so many.
0:13.4	So we don't have to justify if the politics of a female president is massively important
0:18.5	to you as it is to me.
0:21.1	We don't have to justify bad behavior because we have lots of other choices and we can
0:25.5	look honestly at coverage and see, wait, what's bubbling up because it's a problem
0:31.1	with gender and because it's a problem with this candidate.
0:33.2	And look, it's not bubbling up for some of the other candidates.
0:35.8	It's not, we're not hearing, oh, they're a tough boss about Christian Gillibrand or
0:39.2	Kamala Harris.
0:40.2	And so we need to think about that too.
0:41.7	I mean, that's the best part about this is we can look across the board and say, wait,
0:45.4	what's an issue?
0:46.7	What's, what are we seeing as systematic of the way all of them are covered as opposed
0:51.4	to the way in which this particular candidate is covered?
0:57.9	This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.
1:00.5	You're listening to fancy politics.
1:02.3	They're shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.
1:05.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Cancer Politics.
1:23.3	On today's episode, we're going to be talking about another government shutdown, the events
1:30.5	in the state of Virginia.
1:32.0	And in our main segment, we're going to talk about how we cover women in politics, specifically
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