Nevertheless, Misogyny Persisted
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss how we got to such a white, male set of options for President. Then, they dive into the gendered responses to coronavirus. Finally, the panel discusses a new movie about abortion: Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
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Other items discussed on the show:
Coronavirus: Five ways virus upheaval is hitting women in Asia by Lara Owen in the BBC
69 Percent of Men Don’t Wash Their Hands After Using the Bathroom?! by Amanda in The Cut
Recommendations:
June: A Taste Of Honey (1961)
Nichole: So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith
Marcia: Freethinker, Sex Suffrage, an the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly A. Hamlin
Christina: The city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.7 | Hello, Slate listeners. |
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| 0:32.0 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, March 12th, the Nevertheless, Misogyny Persisted Edition. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Christina Caudrucci, a staff writer at Slate, and host of the Slate podcast Outward. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm Marcia Chalett. I'm Professor of History at Georgetown University. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thursday, 8th. |
| 0:47.3 | And I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. |
| 0:53.9 | And compliant with best health practices during this time of coronavirus, we're all recording from separate locations. |
| 0:56.7 | It's a new era for the waves. So Marcia, I believe, is recording in a hotel room. |
| 1:04.0 | Absolutely. In New York City. |
| 1:05.9 | Oh, it's so close and yet so far. Yeah, June and I are both in our respective usual studios and Nicole |
| 1:12.9 | is in her home studio, aka home. I'm at home in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Well, I'm glad we were still |
| 1:22.9 | able to gather through the magic of the internet and telephone, which are still blessedly working. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, I guess who knows how long this will have to maintain our distance from each other, |
| 1:35.7 | possibly indefinitely. |
| 1:37.8 | But I think hopefully our listeners will bear with us. |
| 1:41.4 | You'll still get a great show. |
| 1:43.2 | This week, we're going to start off with a discussion |
| 1:45.5 | about the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, which is hurtling toward its inevitable conclusion, |
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