Olympics Extravaganza Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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June Thomas, Noreen Malone, and Willa Paskin discuss the endless drama of Olympic gymnastics, whether intersex athlete's should be allowed to compete in women's events and everything wonderful and frustrating about this year's Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Slate Double-X Gab Fest for Thursday, August 11th, the Olympics extravaganza edition. |
| 0:21.4 | Hannah is away this week, but I'm June Thomas, a writer and editor at Slate, and I am here |
| 0:26.5 | in the New York studios with Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hello, Noreen. Hi, June. |
| 0:31.7 | And we're lucky enough to have Slate's TV critic Willa Willa Paskin joining us for what will be |
| 0:36.4 | a very special Olympics edition of the Gab Fest. Hello, Willa. Hi. You know, you are secretly a jot, right? Yeah. No, I mean, I was a jock when I was growing up and that sort of feels like fundamental to my identity, even though I have forsaken jockdom below two decades |
| 0:57.4 | ago at this point or something. But you watch sports. I'm into sports. I care about sports in the way |
| 1:02.6 | that one does when one grows up caring about sports. All right. Cool. So as I said, we're focusing |
| 1:09.0 | on the quadrennial fortnight of awesomeness that is the Summer Olympic Games. |
| 1:13.6 | We'll be talking about the endless drama that is Olympic gymnastics. |
| 1:17.6 | We'll look at the controversy over whether intersex athletes like Castor Semenya should be allowed to compete in women's events. |
| 1:23.8 | And finally, we'll talk about the things that we've loved and the things that have outraged us thus far in the games of the 31st Olympiad. |
| 1:32.1 | Then in our Slate Plus segment, we'll decide if NBC's coverage has been sexist. |
| 1:36.7 | I wonder where we'll come down on that. |
| 1:38.7 | If you're not yet a Slate Plus member, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash xxplus. |
| 1:46.0 | Now, Willa, in my very complex setup for the gymnastics section of our discussion, |
| 1:52.7 | I just want to ask you about your attitude to women's gymnastics at the Olympics. |
| 1:58.0 | Do you worship them? |
| 1:59.6 | Do you adore them or do you merely love Olympic gymnastics? Discuss. |
| 2:04.6 | I think in years past I have, I think adored is right. But I am only feeling love this time around. |
| 2:10.7 | I think that the team is obviously so great and the girls, women on the team are all superb athletes. And Simone Biles is |
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