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The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

The “Do Real Men Recycle?” Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

Slate Podcasts

News Commentary, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, News

4.2903 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Waves, Hanna, June and Noreen discuss the New York Times article “My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me”. Then, the Zero Waste movement has made its way to instagram. Have we totally missed the point? Finally, they discuss the recent anti-abortion laws passed in multiple state legislations and the various protest reactions to them. In Slate Plus: Is it sexist to criticize Constance Wu for her reaction to the renewal her sitcom Fresh Off the Boat? Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Our production assistant is Alex Barasch. Email your topic suggestions and responses to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Do Real Men Recycle Edition?

0:05.0

Welcome to the waves for Thursday, May 16th, the Do Real Men Recycle Edition? I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's

0:15.0

Invisabilia. In the New York Studios, we have June Thomas, senior managing

0:18.5

producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen

0:22.4

and Noreen, of New York magazine.

0:24.0

Hi, Noreen.

0:25.0

Hello. Hi.

0:26.0

So have either of you used the Gender Switch filter yet on Snapchat, which

0:30.4

Noreen I know you're excited about?

0:32.0

Oh, I'm not excited about it.

0:33.6

I'm interested in it.

0:34.8

I feel like it's some nefarious plot by the government

0:39.0

to like have all of our facial recognition data like uploaded via Snapchat and we're all just

0:45.9

giving everything away because we are so curious about what like all of America

0:50.3

is like gender curious where we're like what would I look like as a man like what would I look like in a

0:54.9

wig with mascara like humans are so easy to trick that is genius I love that I

1:02.3

didn't even think of that that's's very, very good. I've been going down to facial recognition rabbit hole lately just looking up like facial recognition mistakes, you know, like states like Florida that have been fake facial recognition forever and

1:14.8

the wrong people get arrested or the way they do lineups with facial

1:17.8

recognition anyway it's all a little scary but that's a good theory that's a

1:21.6

good theory yeah I feel like whenever a tech company has you do something fun and cool and like, you know, it's always a plot.

1:29.0

You find out two years later.

1:30.0

Is this where I get to be the Killjoy saying,

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