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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, July 14th, the Power Frows edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia.

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 of New York Magazine. Hi, Hannah. June, shouldn't we introduce you as the editor of also double X, since it's relevant to our show and you do now edit double X some of the days?

I only edit it one day a week, but sure. I mean, I do many things. I was on how to listen this week.

And the one fifth editor of double X. The keeper of all things gender at slate, right? Is that

queen of gender. Queen of gender is a complicated phrase, Hannah, possibly even problematic. Yeah, because Brian might want that phrase. Yeah, that's true. That belongs to the man. Well, I'm glad to be back all of us together. It has been a long time, so I'm excited to be here. Oh, that's right. That's right. Yeah, we've missed a few episodes. It's always been one or another of us. Okay. Well, today we are going to discuss Britain's new prime minister is a woman. Yay. But does she only get to take over because men have made a mess of things? Second is Roger Ailes, the next Bill Cosby. Am I allowed to say that? Do you think that's fair, Noreen? I think that's a fair framing. Okay. All right. We'll get into it. We'll get into it. But we'll just say that's fair for now. We'll frame it the Foxway. Yeah. Is Roger Ailes the next Bill Cosby? News at 11. News at 11 11 and i'm wearing a short skirt while we talk

about this with my legs crossed and heels that's the foxway yeah well noreen you know what if you want to

play with the big boys you have to lay with the big boys we should save this for the segment

save it for the segment but Save it for this segment.

But since you mentioned your short skirt, I just thought I would sexually harass you on air.

Anyway, okay, finally, the Bachelor franchise.

Why has it lasted so long?

And of course, we'll talk about Unreal, a show about a fictional Bachelor-type show and how it gets put together.

And also, for Slate Plus listeners,

we have a special segment today, is air conditioning sexist. All right, let's start with our first topic. Britain's new prime minister is a woman, Teresa May. She's a lifelong politician.

She's a leader of the Conservative Party. And she has been described as a safe pair of

hands to guide them through troubled times. But as June, our own June Thomas, asked in her recent

slate piece, does the sudden rise of female power in the UK come at a time when Britain is in a

stonking great mess? June, what does stonking mean? It's just really big. So stonking great mess is a really, really big mess. June, what does stonking mean?

It's just really big.

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