Writhing in the Workplace

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

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News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.2 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, and Marcia take on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix show The Goop Lab. Next, the panel discusses Donald Trump’s appearance at March for Life—the first time a sitting president attended the annual anti-abortion event. Finally, the panel dives into a 1,000-word job description for a “household manager/cook/nanny” posted by a single working mom in Menlo Park that went viral. In Slate Plus this week, is it sexist that the Washington Post suspended its reporter Felicia Sonmez for tweeting about the 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant in the hours after his death? Other items discussed on the show: “The March for Life Was a March for Trump,” by Christina Cauterucci in Slate “What antiabortion advocates get wrong about the women who secured the right to vote,” by Reva Siegel and Stacie Taranto in the Washington Post “An Interview With the Woman Who Wrote the Viral 1,000-Word Job Listing for a ‘Household Manager/Cook/Nanny’,” by Ruth Graham in Slate “The Remembering Kobe Bryant Edition” of Slate’s Hang Up and Listen podcast “How Media Outlets Are Acknowledging (and Not Acknowledging) Kobe Bryant’s Rape Case,” by Christina Cauterucci in Slate Recommendations: June: Season 10 of Vera, the ITV and BritBox’s detective drama. Marcia: “A Short History of Abortion-Related Boycotts,” by Cynthia Greenlee in Rewire.News. Christina: “The Darkness Where the Future Should Be,” by Michelle Goldberg in the New York Times. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com. And please call in with your “Is It Sexist” questions at 973-826-0318. This podcast was produced by Lindsey Kratochwill. Production assistance by Rachael Allen and Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday January 30th,
0:15.0	the Rithing in the Workplace Edition.
0:17.0	I'm Christina Katerucci, a staff writer at Slate
0:20.0	and host of the Slate Podcast Outward.
0:22.0	I'm Marsha Chattattlin a professor of history at
0:24.8	Georgetown University and I'm June Thomas senior managing producer of slate
0:29.0	podcasts. Hi guys. Hello.
0:32.0	Hello. Hello.
0:33.0	Unfortunately, Nicole is out this week, so we're going to have to bring the conversation
0:39.5	in the discourse extra hard. Speaking of great discourse, I want to thank a bunch of our
0:46.6	listeners who wrote in with comments about our segment on Megan and Harry's
0:51.4	semi-departure from the royal family.
0:54.0	Two listeners actually wrote in with kind of,
0:56.0	is it sexist questions about it?
0:58.0	One person wrote, living in Los Angeles
1:01.0	and knowing people who know people.
1:03.0	One thing that flavors this whole Megan Markle conversation for me is knowing that her career
1:07.9	goal from the beginning was to get just famous enough to get access to attend the right parties
1:12.4	to meet and marry a royal
1:13.7	so that she would never have to work again. Of course they can't get sources so that's
1:17.4	all just rumor but maybe it's also a fun little game of is it sexist. So there are
1:21.5	sexist rumors on this side of the pond too. I had no idea.
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