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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, February 7th, the John Wayne Bobbitts, Oregon Edition.

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

In the New York studios, we have June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Sleep Podcast Network. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. What's up? Are you guys excited about going to Australia? Yes. Extremely. Not only am I excited about going to Australia, but also clearly Australian listeners are amazing.

I know that Christina mentioned it last week, but my God, we've got so much response, so many ideas about guests.

And like instantaneously.

Yes.

It was amazing.

It was amazing.

They just kept pouring in.

We love you, Australia.

Anyway, did any of you watch the State of the Union last night? I assume you were wearing white suits, both of you, right? We're in New York. So, yeah, we're wearing white suits. If by white suits, you mean black clothes, sure. Yes, exactly, exactly. Listeners, we record on Wednesdays. That's why I said last night, uh, because state of the union. There was that

woman moment. Like I thought those women were never going to crack. He made them smile. I bet that was

his whole thing, you know? Anyway. Um, okay, should we get started? Let's. So our topics today. First,

a reexamination of Lorena Bobbitt, how we talked about her and what we did wrong.

Second, the future of fraternities.

Finally, the push for pay transparency in an effort to close the gender pay gap.

And then in our Slate Plus segment, June, you want to say what we're going to talk about?

I do.

We will discuss whether the interest in the past sex lives of the women running for president in 2020 is sexist. And to hear that fourth segment, that's for Slate Plus members only, and to support Slate's journalism, go to slate.com slash the waves plus.

All right. Lorraine Bobbitt and the cleansing of our 90s sins.

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