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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, October 20th, the Killing Off the Kings 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, Hannah.

Hi. It feels crazy that we were talking about Trump just two weeks ago. And as we were preparing,

I was trying to figure out how much has happened since then. Yeah.

It's amazing how much is revealed on a daily basis.

Yeah.

And how many like womeny things happen in this election?

I mean, that's what's crazy.

Like it's become an election about gender in a weird way. And yet, the fact that we probably were going to have the first woman president has almost been forgotten.

Like somebody mentioned that the other day was like, oh, yeah, right, that too, yeah.

Save it for the segment, Thomas.

All right. So our first segment, we are going to talk about Trump.

Is Trump the ultimate gift to women, as some op-ed columnists had been suggesting this week.

Second, we're going to talk about Insecure, the new HBO show about the brutal realities of dating, starring Issa Ray. We'll talk to Emily Witt about her new book, Future Sex. And June, you want to talk about our Slate Plus segment this week? Absolutely. In our Slate Plus segment this week, we'll discuss whether the Nobel Prizes are sexist.

If you're not yet a Slate Plus member, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash XX Plus.

So here's the question. This is how I thought of it.

So many years from now, will you look back and think the 2016 election was finally the moment when people

actually understood what sexual harassment means, what many women face on a daily basis, and we

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