Outward: Dolls and Democrats
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina and Bryan are joined by writer drag performer Pretty Rik E. After talking about Ellen and Big Mouth during Pride and Provocations, they jump into CNN’s LGBTQ town hall where nine different candidates discussed the queer aspects of their platforms. Then they unwrap some toys, giving Mattel’s new Creatable World dolls a spin to see what it’s like to play with a gender-neutral doll, and how it fits into a child’s gender-learning experience.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening AdFree on Amazon Music. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to Outward for the month of October. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Christina Katerucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Waves, |
| 0:22.6 | Slate's podcast about women and gender. And I am a big, juicy ball of adolescent emotion this |
| 0:28.9 | month because I've been listening to the new Teagan and Sarah album. I'm crying inside. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward, and I just parallel parked under duress yesterday for the first time in 12 years in New fucking York. |
| 0:45.5 | Wow. |
| 0:46.1 | So I need to hold space for that achievement just for a minute here on the podcast. |
| 0:50.2 | Snaps for you. |
| 0:51.3 | Snaps for me. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:53.1 | Pretty Ricky is what they call me. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm here guest hosting and trying to figure out why people think Lizzo is a rapper. |
| 1:00.8 | Ooh. |
| 1:01.9 | We could do a whole episode about that. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm so flummoxed by that. |
| 1:06.6 | Have people been saying that? |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.3 | She's categorized as a rapper. |
| 1:10.5 | And I'm like, yeah, her words rhyme, but doesn't every musician's works rhyme? |
| 1:17.0 | So what? |
| 1:18.6 | Okay. |
| 1:19.1 | Huh, huh. |
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