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The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

Moody Bitches Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, News

4.2897 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Hanna Rosin, June Thomas, and Noreen Malone discuss whether women are having their emotions medicated out of them, the hastag #offendeveryoneinfourwords, and the new documentary Hunting Ground about sexual assault on college campuses.


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1:05.1

Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, March 5th, the Moody Bitches Edition.

1:09.6

I'm Hannah Rosen, a writer at Slate. 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. Lone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. It's like you had a spitball right before saying my name. It's true. I was making the effort, you guys. I think our readers must be, I mean, our listeners must be picking up on like, we've had a giddy moment before starting this show, which went from the man bun to sort of slightly other places. Anyway, but we learned what a man bun was, and that was important. Okay. Some of us already knew. Yeah. It was old. Really? Yeah. Hell yeah. It's old. Old. So I'm the only one who thought it was a butt and not a hairstyle. Yeah. So I'm so embarrassed. Okay. All right. Our topics. Our three topics. One, moody bitches like us this morning.

2:02.7

A book that argues that women are having the emotions medicated out of them to meet some male directed idea of sanity.

2:10.3

Second, the hashtag offend everyone in four words and what it says about perceived taboos.

2:16.6

And three, we're going to talk about hunting ground, a new

2:18.5

documentary, about sexual assault on campus. Before we get going on our first topic, Moody

2:24.3

bitches, I want to thank one of our sponsors, Squarespace, a loyal sponsor of the double

2:28.8

X gab fest. So on the ongoing saga of my son and I trying to start this gaming site, actually we've already started it.

2:36.0

Our problem this week was trying to get some videos going on the site because he likes to video himself playing video games.

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