The "Stiff Upper Lip" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss the newest season of The Crown, where Olivia Colman takes the throne as a middle-aged Queen Elizabeth II. Then, they break down a few sexist moments during the impeachment hearings. Finally, the panel dives into a recently published study on hookup culture that explores the relationship between casual sex on college campuses and race.
In Slate Plus: Is it sexist to dismiss YA fiction as just for girls?
Other items discussed on the show:
“How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again,” by Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine
Recommendations
Nichole: Farsáli Skintune Blur Perfecting Primer Serum
June: The podcast Poem Talk. (Stay tuned for June’s upcoming appearance on the podcast!)
Christina: Slate columnist Rich Juzwiak’s Jezebel essay “The Strange, Sad Story of the Ken Doll’s Crotch.”
Marcia: Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s latest book She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman.
This podcast was produced by Sara Burningham. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Recording assistance for this week’s show from Asha Saluja and Melissa Kaplan.
Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com. And please call in with your “Is It Sexist” questions at (973) 826-0318.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:12.1 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, November 21st, the stiff upper lip edition. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Marcia Chathland, a professor of history at Georgetown University. I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and |
| 0:28.2 | co-host of the podcast Thirst Aid Kick. And I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate |
| 0:33.1 | podcast network. Dun-da-da-da-da-da. All right, we have one order of business today before we get into our very juicy episode. |
| 0:41.1 | We are taking submissions of is it sexist questions for our annual call-in show. |
| 0:47.2 | It's going to run the week before Christmas and New Year's. |
| 0:50.1 | It's going to be full of your is it sexist questions. |
| 0:52.8 | We do this every year. You can call in with your questions at 973-8-2-6-0-318, and we might use your voice on the show, but you can remain anonymous if you please. Your deadline to submit the questions is December 15th. You can also email them to the waves at slate.com if you must, but we really would |
| 1:13.1 | love to hear your voices. Again, that number is 973-8-2-6-0-318 with your Is It Sexist Questions? |
| 1:21.6 | All right, this week we are going to kick things off with the Crown, the Netflix show, |
| 1:26.4 | whose third season dropped this week. Then we're going to talk about the with the Crown, the Netflix show, whose third season dropped this week. |
| 1:28.5 | Then we're going to talk about the impeachment inquiry hearings. |
| 1:31.3 | And for our third topic, we are talking about a survey of college students on hooking up. |
| 1:36.5 | And the question of whether hookup culture, quote unquote, is a white thing. |
| 1:42.2 | And Marcia, what's our Slate Plus segment this week? |
| 1:45.1 | Our Slate Plus segment this week asks, is it sexist to dismiss young adult fiction as just for |
| 1:53.5 | teenage girls? Here's a little clip of that conversation. Literacy culture is feminized |
| 1:59.0 | to the point where we are struggling to think, oh, do boys read young adult fiction? Do they read it all? Right? And it's the same way that in my field, you know, the Father's Day gift books are history books. So history books are military history, the history of the gun, barbecue books, sports history. And that's the only time men are supposed to engage in history. |
| 2:19.5 | Come on, I can read about founding fathers. |
| 2:21.6 | Oh, and founding fathers. |
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