The "Whiskey Stones and Stabby Things" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Waves, Christina is joined by By The Book Host Kristen Meinzer and Senior Producer of Slate podcast TJ Raphael to discuss the treatment of Meghan Markle by the british tabloids, the genderdness of holiday gift guides and finally, the new study that found women led films have been consistently outearning films led by men.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.1 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.6 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, December 20th, the Whiskey Stones and Stabby Things Edition. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Christina Cauterucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate |
| 0:21.6 | podcast Outward. And joining me for today's episode, we have Kristen Mineser who co-host |
| 0:28.3 | the podcast by the book. Hey, Kristen. Hey, thanks for having me back. So happy to have you back. |
| 0:34.4 | We're also welcoming a new guest host for the very first time. T.J. Rafael, senior producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Welcome to the show, TJ. Hey, Christina. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for having me. Of course. Yeah. We've been wanting to have you on for a while. I'm so glad it worked out. So we heard from a bunch of listeners on gender reveal parties. |
| 0:58.3 | I wanted to shout out some of the people who emailed saying that they had gender reveal parties. |
| 1:05.9 | There were some good points made to me, at least, somebody who had a little bit of a difficult time, understanding why somebody would have something like that. |
| 1:14.9 | I really appreciate the people who wrote in to school me on their own perspectives. |
| 1:20.9 | And one reader suggested that sometimes gender reveal parties are a way to tell everyone else that the baby was planned and wanted, something I never thought of before. |
| 1:33.8 | So thank you for that. |
| 1:35.1 | This week, I'm really excited about our topics. |
| 1:37.7 | We are going to start off with Meghan Markle, Princess Megan Markle, and what seems like dozens of mini scandals, quote unquote, surrounding her family and her performance as princess over the past few months. |
| 1:53.2 | Then we're going to talk about the gender doctrine of holiday gift guides in which men are treated like cartoonish lumberjacks. And finally, we're going to talk |
| 2:03.4 | about a new study that found that movies with female leads make more money at the box office |
| 2:08.2 | than those with men in the top slot. For our Slate Plus segment today, we're going to decide |
| 2:15.1 | whether piercing baby's ears is sexist. |
| 2:17.9 | This one came from a listener. |
| 2:19.8 | If you're not a Slate Plus member yet and you would like to know whether piercing baby's ears is sexist, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves plus. |
| 2:31.2 | All right, Megan Markle. |
| 2:33.3 | Ooh. |
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