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The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

The Don’t Ask Me To Prom Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

Slate Podcasts

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

4.2897 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Hanna Rosin, June Thomas, and filling-in for Noreen Malone— Jezebel’s Senior Writer Kara Brown discuss celebrity prom proposal videos, missing white women syndrome, and sexual harassment videos.


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0:00.0

You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music.

0:03.4

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:11.4

Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, April 20th.

0:18.5

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

0:21.5

I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, a managing producer of Slate podcasts. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah.

0:27.4

Noreen is on vacation this week. Lucky Noreen. So subbing in for Noreen, we have Kara

0:33.3

Brown, a senior writer for Jezebel. Hi, Kara. Hi. Kara's been on the show before talking to us about

0:39.6

the Women's March, and she is generously joining us from Los Angeles, which is what today? Is L.A.

0:46.9

like, beautiful and awesome as ever? You know, we're about to hit a really warm streak. It's about between

0:52.6

the 80s and 90s for like the next week or so,

0:55.2

not to not to rub it in or anything. But I think the weather's been pretty nice in New York

0:58.7

from what I've heard, right? It's lovely. Well, let's get going. Our topics today are fun ones.

1:04.8

Well, they're not all fun, but they do involve a lot of videos, which is unusual for us. First,

1:09.9

the anatomy of the promposal, which I'm really looking forward to talking about, in which an ordinary guy, usually it's a guy.

1:17.2

Sometimes it's a girl from a suburban high school makes a video inviting a celebrity to the prom.

1:22.9

What do we think about those?

1:24.4

Second, missing white woman syndrome in which it was said in the news that

1:29.4

several women of color had disappeared from the D.C. area. We talk about that as a social media

1:36.3

campaign. And finally, David Schwimmer's updated sexual harassment videos, supposed to be much more

1:42.2

realistic, involve hipsters like the kind that you would just

1:45.9

encounter walking down the street as opposed to creepy old men. They're meant to show you what

1:49.7

harassment really looks like now and we talk about those. And June, you want to tell us what's

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