The Smashing Her Racket Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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On this episode of The Waves, Christina Cauterucci, Rachelle Hampton and Anna Holmes discuss New York state senate race candidate Julia Salazar, the comebacks of women and US Open final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.7 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello, and welcome to the waves for Thursday, September 13th, the Smashing Herracket edition. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate. And joining me on |
| 0:22.9 | today's episode is Anna Holmes, the editorial director at topic.com. Welcome back to the show, Anna. |
| 0:29.1 | Thanks for having me back. Yeah, we're so happy to have you back. And with Anna in Slate's New York |
| 0:34.1 | studio is Slate editorial assistant Rachel Hampton. Hey, Rachel. Hi. So we have a lot of good |
| 0:40.8 | stuff to talk about on this week's episode. First, we're going to take a look at the case of |
| 0:46.1 | Julia Salazar, a candidate for New York State Senate, who has been hounded by accusations |
| 0:51.1 | that she falsified her background and misrepresented her political views. |
| 0:56.3 | Then we'll revisit the idea of Me Too comebacks from the perspective of the women whose careers were stunted after they were allegedly harassed by Harvey Weinstein and others. |
| 1:06.7 | And finally, we'll talk about the tennis match that's been dominating the news this week. |
| 1:10.2 | Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka, and the penalties heard around the world. |
| 1:15.3 | So we'll talk about whether or not those penalties that arguably cost Serena the match were sexist. |
| 1:21.6 | And then in our Slate Plus segment, we will decide whether something else is sexist. |
| 1:27.4 | Man flu. If you're not yet a Slate |
| 1:30.6 | Plus member, you can and should start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com |
| 1:36.7 | slash the waves plus. All right, let's get started. Julia Salazar, she is a 27-year-old Democratic Socialist running to unseat an established Democrat in the New York State Senate representing Brooklyn. |
| 1:52.1 | She has been getting a lot more mainstream press coverage than the average state politician, in part because her story has kind of taken a turn for the bizarre, in part, due to some attacks from right-wing media. |
| 2:05.5 | Rachel, why don't you give us a little primer on what's been happening? |
| 2:09.3 | Definitely. |
| 2:10.2 | Giving a primer on this is extremely difficult because everything keeps coming out. |
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