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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, December 19th, the morning show edition.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate, and host of the Slate Podcast Atword.

I'm Marcia Chathland, a professor of history at Georgetown University.

I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thursday, Kit.

And I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts.

I'm so happy we're all gathered here today for our last show of 2019.

Thank you, listeners, for staying with us through the year.

We have a really good show to wrap up 2019.

We're going to start with a review of the morning show, a series about a news program whose beloved longtime anchor is

ousted for sexual misconduct. This is the rare TV show we're actually reviewing pretty much

at the end of the season. So hopefully a lot of you all have been watching it. Then as we

wrap up the 2010s, we are going to jump back to the decade before the aughts and talk about

the rise and fall of feminist blogs that defined that decade. And for our third topic,

we'll discuss women and open plan offices in what might just amount to an extended, is it sexist

segment? Are open plan office is sexist?

Listen in to find out.

Speaking of things that may or may not be sexist, Marcia, what is our Slate Plus segment this week?

This week we're asking the question, is it sexist that former president Barack Obama suggested that women are better people and therefore will make better leaders in the world.

And here's a little clip of that conversation.

I don't see it as the kind of sexism that makes me want to fully vomit, but this is the kind of

just gag a little bit.

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