The To All the Boys Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

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4.2 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, Christina, Veralyn and Kat discuss Netflix's To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Slow Burn season 2, which forces us to review Bill Clinton's presidency, and a new online dating study that finds desirability in women peaks at 18 years old, while men peak at 50 years old. --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The To All the Boys Edition, I'm Christina
0:04.0	Languish.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, August 30th, the To All the Boys Edition.
0:14.0	I'm Christina Kauterucci, a staff writer at Slate, and joining me on today's episode
0:19.2	is Cat Chow, a reporter at NPR's Code Switch.
0:23.0	Welcome back to the show, Cat.
0:24.4	Thank you.
0:25.2	Also on the show today is our spectacular producer,
0:28.8	Verlin Williams, the one and only.
0:31.0	Hi, Verlin.
0:32.0	Hey Christina. So today we're going to kick things off with a
0:36.6	teen romcom that's streaming on Netflix. It's called to all the boys I've loved
0:41.8	before. It features one of the few Asian American It's called To All the Boys I Have Loved Before.
0:42.8	It features one of the few Asian American protagonists
0:45.6	in the genre.
0:46.4	I'm really excited to talk to you guys about that.
0:48.9	Then we will chat with Leon Nefak,
0:51.2	the host of the Slate Podcast Slowburn, about season two of his show, which does a deep dive into the Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky situation.
1:01.0	And finally, we'll discuss a new study of people's behavior on an online dating
1:04.6	platform which found surprise spoiler alert that men are most desirable around
1:10.4	age 50 and women's desirability peaks at age 18.
1:15.0	Yakes.
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