The "Winter Call-In" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Waves, it’s our winter “Is It Sexist?” call-in show! Christina is joined by Veralyn Williams and Lili Loofbourow to rate listener “is it sexist?” questions. They rate general admission concerts, required email etiquette and more on the sexist scale.
Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Research Assistance by Alex Barasch.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.1 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, January 3rd. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host to the Slate podcast outward. |
| 0:20.4 | Joining me today is Varyl Williams, who's a |
| 0:22.9 | producer in WNYC's narrative unit. Welcome back, Beryl. Thank you, Christina. It's good to be back. |
| 0:29.6 | So good to have you home. And calling in all the way from Berkeley, California, is Slate |
| 0:34.9 | staff writer, Lily Loughbyte. Welcome back to the show, Lily. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.9 | So this show is our first one of 2019. Happy New Year. Yes. We're... New York Fright. Yeah. We're recording it in |
| 0:50.2 | 2018, so I really feel like a time traveler here. It's pretty special. So we have a very |
| 0:57.4 | special episode to kick off the New Year of the Waves. We are spending the whole podcast today |
| 1:04.4 | answering your Is It Sexist Questions. We have a whole slew of good, juicy questions on our docket. They're all from listeners. And we've been preparing so hard for this and ready to give you our extremely scientific and unavoidable answers. And for our Slate Plus segment today, we're answering another listener question. This one is |
| 1:30.6 | not quite straightforwardly. Is it sexist? But it's really interesting. We're going to talk about |
| 1:35.5 | how a truly innocent person should respond if falsely accused of sexual harassment or assault. |
| 1:41.3 | So if you're not a Slate Plus member yet, you can and should start your |
| 1:45.2 | free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves plus. All right. First question. This |
| 1:52.7 | one comes from Fiona. Let's listen. Hi, the waves. My name is Fiona. I'm calling with an, is it sexist question. Can you tell me if it's sexist that I prefer a female-led work environment? I'm a degree of engineer who worked in oil and gas before switching tax and have since worked in academia and healthcare. I dealt with a lot of toxic masculinity and mansplaining. |
| 2:19.3 | When I took my current role, my boss and three of the execs at the company were women. |
| 2:23.8 | It was a fabulous, supportive work environment. |
| 2:26.9 | Well, it's been a few years, and the boys are back in charge, and frankly, I miss my matriarchy. |
| 2:33.6 | Every mention of dirt biking and the Cowboys makes me cringe. |
| 2:39.1 | Is it sexist that I want to work in a woman-led workplace again? |
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