The Waves: What Amber Heard’s Make-up Palette Says About the Legal System. (Plus: Roe v Wade)
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🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we start with a conversation with upcoming Slow Burn: Roe v Wade host, Susan Matthews and Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth about the implications of the recently leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe.
In the main show, we shift focus to gender violence as the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial continues. Cheyna sits down with Dr. Nicole Bedera about what happens when fans try to play detective and how we should actually be talking to victims of violence. Later in the show they talk about Men’s Rights Activists and the broader implications of suing people who accuse someone of assault.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is |
| 0:13.6 | then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps |
| 0:17.9 | and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath |
| 0:21.6 | but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:44.1 | Welcome to the Waves. Slates podcast about gender, feminism and today two massive court cases |
| 0:50.4 | impacting women. Every episode you get a different feminist to tell you about the thing we can't |
| 0:55.4 | get off our mind and today you've got me, Shayna Roth. I'm a senior producer for Slate and |
| 1:00.7 | producer of the Waves. We're going to be talking today about the leaked Supreme Court opinion that |
| 1:06.1 | came out on Monday. For that Susan Matthews, Slate News Director is going to join me to unpack |
| 1:11.1 | what happened and what it all means. After that I'll be joined by Dr. Nicole Badeira, |
| 1:15.7 | a sociologist to talk about what the Johnny Depp Amber Hurd trial is telling us about how society |
| 1:21.2 | views gender violence. Before we get to Dr. Badeira we need to talk about what's going on with abortion. |
| 1:27.4 | On Monday night, Politico released an exclusive titled Supreme Court has voted to overturn |
| 1:32.3 | abortion rights draft opinion shows the leaked initial draft of a majority opinion authored by |
| 1:37.7 | Justice Samuel Alito shows that the court does indeed intend to overturn the landmark case |
| 1:44.2 | Roe versus Wade. Roe is the case that essentially granted a right to an abortion in the United States. |
| 1:50.8 | This is something that we have been expecting, but to see the intentions of the court laid bear |
| 1:56.7 | in this draft opinion that wasn't supposed to be released somehow still feels worse than we |
| 2:03.9 | were preparing for. There's a lot of great coverage on this across the Slate site, including a |
| 2:09.6 | piece by Dalia Lithwick, The Supreme Court's legitimacy is already lost, and I highly recommend |
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