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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, January 30th, the Rithing in the Workplace Edition.

I'm Christina Cauterucci, a staff writer at Slate, and host of the Slate podcast Outward.

I'm Marcia Chathland, a professor of history at Georgetown University.

And I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts.

Hi, guys.

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Hello.

Unfortunately, Nicole is out this week, so we're going to have to bring the conversation

and the discourse extra hard.

Speaking of great discourse, I want to thank a bunch of our listeners who wrote in with

comments about our segment on Megan and Harry's

semi-departure from the Royal Family. Two listeners actually wrote in with kind of is it sexist

questions about it. One person wrote, living in Los Angeles and knowing people who know people,

one thing that flavors this whole Megan Markle conversation for me is knowing that her career goal from the beginning was to get just famous enough to get access to attend the right parties to meet and marry a royal so that she would never have to work again.

Of course, they can't give sources, so that's all just rumor, but maybe it's also a fun little game of is it sexist.

So there are sexist rumors on this side of the pond, too. I had no idea.

I have to say that also, just for the record, was my career plan.

And how's it going for you?

Not working out exactly the plan.

Somebody else wrote in to say, I wanted to raise the idea that saying Megxit, which is the term that we use for most

of the show, is sexist. And using that term is similar to the biased treatment Megan Markle received

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