The Princess and the Poop
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode the Waves, Christina, June, Nichole, and Marcia kick off 2020 by answering listeners’ “is it sexist?” questions. The hosts tackle bathroom etiquette, male presidential candidates, the term “girly girl,” and much more.
In Slate Plus: Is it sexist to call someone a douchebag?
Other items discussed on the show:
Recommendations
Nichole: Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
June: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
The television show Derry Girls, streaming on Netflix
Marcia: The streaming service Pluto TV, which includes everything from MTV Cribs to Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Christina: Slate’s recent cover story “Lockdown” on children’s responses to school shooting drills. Also available to listen to on Apple Podcasts.
This podcast was produced by Sara Burningham. Production assistance by Rachael Allen and Rosemary Belson.
Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.8 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, January 2nd, 2020, The Princess and the Poop Edition. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast Outward. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Marcia Chathland, a professor of history at Georgetown University. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit. |
| 0:33.2 | And I'm June Thomas, the senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. |
| 0:37.1 | And it's our annual call-in show. |
| 0:40.1 | Our first show in the new year, we're so excited we're all gathered in our respective studios except Marsha, who's calling in from an exotic locale on the road. |
| 0:49.5 | I am under a coat. |
| 0:51.5 | It sounds cozy under there. |
| 1:13.1 | We have a full docket of Is It Sexist Questions to get to today. Thank you to everybody who sent them in. Your questions were particularly juicy and thought-provoking this year. And I think we're going to get to a good chunk of them today. And listeners, if you like this Is It Sexist discussion type thing, please know that in every episode, we answer one of these Is It Sexist |
| 1:18.2 | questions for our Slate Plus listeners. And you can join Slate Plus for just $35 a year for the first |
| 1:25.0 | year, or you can even take a two-week trial period by going to slate.com |
| 1:29.3 | slash the waves plus. And this week, we'll save one of our questions just for Slate Plus members. |
| 1:35.3 | We took one of your excellent questions. Our conversation got a little heated and involved a |
| 1:42.8 | comprehensive evaluation of curse words. |
| 1:45.9 | We are going to decide whether it's sexist to call someone a douche or a douche bag. |
| 1:51.7 | Here's a little snippet from that conversation. |
| 1:54.6 | Maybe Enema would be another good insult. |
| 1:56.9 | Enema, yeah. |
| 1:57.7 | Everybody. |
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