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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, March 28th, the on-brand analysis edition.

I'm June Thomas, Senior Managing Producer of the Slate Podcast Network.

Christina Cotteroochee can't be with us today, so I get the pleasure of chewing over the

week in women with Marcia Shatlin, who is a professor of history in African-American

studies at Georgetown. Hi, Marcia. Hello. And making her waves debut today is Maya

Maya Salam, gender reporter for the New York Times,

who writes in her words, the Times newsletter about gender and women's issues.

Welcome, Maya.

Hi, June. It's a pleasure.

So before we beg in today, I just wanted to note that last week's episode led quite a few people

to write into us to note that the waves-based spoke pronunciation

of Candidate O'Rourke's first name was Barry, Barry inaccurate. But it's just our tribute to

Beyonce. So sorry Beto, but, you know, we talk how we talk. Okay, on today's show, we'll be talking

about New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adirne's empathetic response to the March 15th mosque attacks, the new Hulu series The Act, which tells a horrifying real life story of maternal abuse, and the latest sadly familiar attacks on comprehensive, accurate sex education.

And Marcia, what's the is it sexist question that we'll be discussing in our

fourth segment, which is for Slate Plus members? The question is, is Chris Hayes' use of the term

ragging to refer to Elizabeth Warren's speaking style. Is that sexist?

Hmm. That's, and here's a little sample from that conversation.

I don't know how to deliberate on this case with Chris Hayes, but I do have a lot of questions as to that characterization relative to the conversation that was being had.

And I think that this is about how women's tone is interpreted.

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