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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, January 26th, the I Know What a Uterus

Looks Like Now, edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, a Uterus Looks Like Now Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia. And in the New York studios, we have June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. So our three topics today. First, the Women's March, the experience, the aftermath, will it birth the left equivalent of the Tea Party?

Second, why men don't take women's jobs, even when those are the only jobs around?

We talk to a nurse who is a man.

Note that I didn't say male nurse.

Third, a recent poll of Americans shows that most people think it's a better time to be a man than a woman with one exception. Republican men who say women have it better. We discuss. And then in our Slate Plus segment today, we are going to answer a reader question about armpit hair. And the question is, is it sexist to judge a woman with armpit hair in the workplace? So for Slate Plus members, we will talk about that at the end of the show. Our first topic, the women's march. The numbers are disputed, but I was there. I know that it was something like half a million people. It seems about right. So let's talk about what it was like and how the left intends to harness its power.

Now, Noreen, just from the little texting I did with you at the march, I didn't see you

because there were half a million people there, it seemed like whatever resistance you had

initially had mostly melted away. Is that right? Well, yes. I mean, so I should, I came on this

podcast a few weeks ago and said I was not a marcher. I was a journalist. I didn't need to march. And I went to the march in my capacity as a journalist. Actually, I went to write about it. So that allowed me the distance that I sort of need in my soul. But I had a great time. I probably wrote with less critical distance than I should have because I just had a fantastic day where I felt good about, you know, being in a crowd of 500,000 other people who were deeply injured by the fact that Donald Trump is our president.

And, you know, not all, but a lot of them were women.

And the way I've been talking about it is that it was like the world's longest bathroom line.

Like, you know when you're waiting in line for the bathroom and you just kind of make friends with the woman beside you because you're doing the same thing?

It was just like that easy camaraderie. And I thought a lot of the signs were really funny. There was a lot of

energy. I had a good time. I'm count me, count me not a skeptic anymore. What was your experience,

Hannah? Oh, I thought it was amazing. I mean, it was amazing. It was chaotic. It was as many people, you know, you'd hear people

around you like, oh, this is more like a swarm than a march, or this is more like a meander than a

march because the technology didn't work. So there was not a lot of communication about go this

way. In fact, one time we thought we were marching, and in fact, we were just online to the

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