Love In a Pod
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss the Harvey Weinstein trial verdict. Then, they dive into the reality show Love Is Blind. Finally, the panel interviews artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh about her book Stop Telling Women to Smile.
In Slate Plus: Is it sexist to call woman in the workplace “helpful”?
Other items discussed on the show:
“The Weinstein Verdict Is Both a Victory and a Disappointment,” by Christina Cauterucci in Slate.
Recommendations:
Marcia: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis.
June: Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Christina: “I Don’t Want to Be the Strong Female Lead,” by Brit Marling in the New York Times.
Nichole: Murder, She Wrote.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, February 27th, the Love and a Pod edition. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Christina Cauterucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm Marcia Chalindle, a professor of history at Georgetown University. I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thursday 8th, and I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. |
| 0:43.8 | Before we get started for this week's episode, I wanted to thank everybody who wrote into us about our segment on alcohol. |
| 0:50.7 | We got a ton of responses more than usual, and it was really great to hear so many different perspectives. There was one listener who really loved Holly Whitaker's book, |
| 0:54.9 | Quit Like a Woman. Someone else recommended an article in the Atlantic said it changed their |
| 0:59.8 | life. The article is called The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous. There were also a couple |
| 1:05.0 | listeners who found AA groups that worked for them. And one thought Whitaker's piece was |
| 1:10.6 | a strawman takedown. So it was great to hear that pushback too. And one thought Whitaker's piece was a strawman takedown. |
| 1:12.0 | So it was great to hear that pushback, too. So thank you again to all our listeners who |
| 1:15.7 | responded to that segment. We have some great topics lined up for this week. First up is the |
| 1:22.2 | Harvey Weinstein verdict. We're going to talk about the charges he was convicted on, the charges |
| 1:27.1 | he was acquitted of, and what it all means. Then we're going to review Love is Blind, a truly bonkers new Netflix dating show. And finally, we have a special guest, the artist and author Tatiana Fazlal Azade. We're going to talk to her about her new book, Stop Telling Women to Smile, which chronicles her ongoing portrait project about street harassment. And Marcia, what is our Slate Plus segment this week? |
| 1:54.1 | Our Slate Plus segment comes from a listener who asks, is it sexist when women are described as helpful? |
| 2:02.6 | That is going to be a great conversation. |
| 2:05.7 | Some of us will have to refrain from bringing our own personal lives into it. |
| 2:09.7 | Some of us certainly will bring our own personal experiences into it. |
| 2:13.3 | Here's a snippet of that conversation. |
| 2:15.6 | I'm very curious what Marcia thinks about this. |
| 2:18.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:19.1 | I hate the word helpful. |
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