The Embarrassment of Bitches Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Hanna Rosin and Noreen Malone discuss Trump’s threat to bring up Hillary's marriage during the Presidential debates with Jamelle Bouie, Slate's Chief Political, Sex Ed Queens on YouTube with Amanda Hess, New York Times writer, and the new Amazon series Fleabag, with Emily Nussbaum, TV Critic for The New Yorker.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.2 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the double-ex scab fest for Thursday, October 6th, the Embarrassment of Bitches edition. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm joined in New York by Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, I'm lonely here in the studio today. Yes, there is no June. And to fill the shoes of the larger-than-life June, we will have three guests because it takes three people to make one June, a series of guests, one for each topic. So let's jump in. Our topics today are, first, |
| 0:40.2 | Trump threatens to bring up Hillary's marriage as a campaign issue. We discuss with slight political |
| 0:45.1 | analyst Jamel Bowie. Second, the sex ed queens of YouTube. We discuss with New York Times |
| 0:50.3 | writer Amanda Hess. And finally, Fleabag, a new Amazon series starring a highly unlikable female protagonist. We talk about that with the New York Times writer Amanda Hess. And finally, Fleabag, a new Amazon series starring a highly |
| 0:55.1 | unlikable female protagonist. We talk about that with the New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum. |
| 0:59.7 | For our Slate Plus segment, this week, as part of Slate's 20th anniversary celebrations, |
| 1:06.3 | we at the Double X Gab Fest are going to talk about and nominate our favorite segments of all time. |
| 1:12.7 | Our peers that hang up and listen and the culture Gab Fest and the political Gab Fest also revisited their favorite moments. |
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| 1:34.4 | All right. |
| 1:34.9 | Our first topic, Trump and Hillary. |
| 1:37.2 | Last week, Trump threatened to bring up the Clinton marriage issue and in so doing brought up the Clinton marriage issue. |
| 1:42.9 | Here's his exact quote to the New York Times. He says Hillary Clinton was married to the single greatest abuser of women in the history of politics. Hillary was an enabler and she attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterwards. I think it's a serious problem for them. And it's something that I'm considering talking about more in the near future. Today with us is Jamel Bowie, Slate's |
| 2:01.9 | chief political correspondent, to discuss this issue. Hi, Jamal. Hello. So I feel like we |
| 2:07.3 | could totally dismiss this, except that feminists have raised this issue as well, so it's not |
| 2:12.0 | completely, completely dismissable. But maybe what we'll do is break it down. So the single |
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