Thou Shalt Cruise Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Hanna Rosin, Noreen Malone, and June Thomas discuss "the wife bonus," whether gayness is getting left behind with Slate's Bryan Lowder, and bridesmaids.The DoubleX Gabfest is sponsored by Smith and Noble. Smith and Noble is giving DoubleX Gabfest listeners 20% off on your window treatments – plus, a free in-home consultation. To get this incredible offer, go to smithandnoble.com/XX.The DoubleX Gabfest is also by Squarespace. Start building your website today at Squarespace.com. Enter offer code XX at checkout to get 10% off. Squarespace—Build it Beautiful.And by NatureBox. NatureBox ships tasty and guilt-free snacks right to your door. With over 100 flavors to choose from like Asiago & Cheddar Cheese Crisps, Pistachio Power Clusters and Big Island Pineapple, you’ll never get bored of snacking again. Try NatureBox for free by going to naturebox.com/doublex.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.9 | Slates Double X Gab Fest is sponsored by Smith & Noble, featuring custom window treatments |
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| 0:28.5 | Squarespace, build it beautiful. |
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| 0:45.5 | slash D-O-U-B-L-E-X. The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:56.9 | Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, May 28th, the Thou Shelt Cruz edition. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm Hannah Rosen, a writer for Slate in the Atlantic. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQ blog. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi, June. |
| 1:09.5 | Hey, Hannah. |
| 1:10.5 | And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Good morning. So after our last edition, a reader wrote in and scolded me for not mentioning the name of the reporter who wrote the nail salon expose, which indeed was very un-sisterly of us. So I want to do that now. It's Sarah Maslin |
| 1:28.1 | near, and we spoke about that on the last episode, and it was indeed fantastic. So all |
| 1:33.0 | props to Sarah. Sorry about that. Okay, our three topics for today. Let's jump in. First, |
| 1:38.5 | the wife bonus. A new anthropology of Upper East Side Society Wives discovers this little |
| 1:44.0 | retrograde practice of rich husbands handing out a year end to their glam-sams, glamorous stay-at-home moms. |
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