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Welcome to the Double-X Gab Fest for Thursday, July 23rd, 2015, the Manic Panic Armpits Edition.

I'm Noreen Malone, an editor at New York Magazine.

I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, the editor of Outwards, Slate's LGBTQ blog.

Hi, June.

Hey, Noreen. Nice speaking of all the initials there. Yes, it's a generational thing. We are taught it at birth. Good. A millennial generation. And we also have special guest, Seth Stevenson, a Slate contributor who will be standing in for all the men everywhere of this week while Hannah Rosen is out of town. Hi, Seth. Are you up to it?

Of course I'm up to it, Noreen. Hi, June. This is my chance. Okay. Our three topics for today, we are going to start with the very important issue. The trend of long armpit hair on young women, not just long armpit hair, but Easter egg color dyed long armpit hair. Are you just an old fogey if you're sporting a plain old-shaped pit these days? Second, we'll talk about Planned Parenthood, which is once more under attack from a right-wing activist group. This time, one with thousands of hours of undercover tape shot from inside clinics. Should the pro-choice movement be worried? And third, we all know about the male

gaze, but what is the female gays, circa 2015? So before we jump into our first topic, we just

wanted to say that thank you to everyone who wrote in to our email inboxes about asexuality.

I would say it was sort of a mix of people who were happy we'd done it and wanted to share their

story and people sort of scolding us for not, for asking more questions than, you know, being informed.

Right.

Yeah, I think you got the response exactly right.

Like, there was this.

Finally, someone's talking about this.

Finally, my sort of feelings are being represented.

But then just some disappointment that we didn't know as much as we, in their view, should have. But that also feels kind of to be expected when,

as everyone says, it's just not a topic that people have really gotten out into the mainstream

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