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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, October 13th, the say yes please to hog castration edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a writer for Slate, joined in New York by June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQGG blog.

Hi, June.

Hello, Hannah. How are you? I thought I was getting it down. And Noreen of New York

magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi. So our three topics today are first, we'll discuss the midterm

elections and women. If a conservative woman wins, is it still good for women? Second, Amy Poller's new memoir, Yes, Please, which is out this week.

And third, Valerie Jarrett, the president's closest advisor, consigliary, whisperer, is a woman.

How strange is that?

So before we get going, I want to pose to you guys another dilemma.

I was on mom and dad are fighting.

I was a sub-cohost last week. And in the

beginning, they talk about parenting dilemmas. And I mentioned one which my friends have just been

berating me about all week. And so I want to pose it to our listeners and get your comments on our

Facebook page. Here's the situation. My daughter was dressing up for Halloween and she decided she wanted to be Hillary Clinton. And so she and I were in the bathroom together, and she was putting on what she perceived to be political lady makeup. Me and she was like putting on, you know, mascara and a little lip gloss and whatever. And I looked at her and out of my mouth came the words, oh, my God, you look so much better.

And, you know, she was like, she was like jokingly offended, but not actually offended. And so the question is, like, am I the worst mother ever? I don't know, guys. What is even the question that I'm asking our listeners to comment on? I think it might be terrible mother or worst mother ever?

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