DoubleX Gabfest: The Mean Girls and Lost Girls Edition
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In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin joins DoubleX managing editor Allison Benedikt and New Republic staff writer Noreen Malone to discuss new legislation aimed at protecting transgender kids; Robert Kolker’s book, Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery; and the return of “deranged” sorority girl Rebecca Martinson.
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Other items discussed in the show:
- Hanna Rosin’s 2008 Atlantic story, “A Boy’s Life.”
- “What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?” asks the New York Times Magazine.
- An excerpt from Lost Girls.
- The email that made sorority girl Rebecca Martinson infamous.
- Martinson’s new dating column and advice on “butt sex.”
DoubleX endorsements:
Noreen Malone wants you to read Marc Tracy on the Daddy Wars.
Hanna Rosin recommends these beautiful pictures of transgender men and Adelle Waldman’s new book, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Allison Benedikt says to check out this Big Star documentary, and endorses Superchunk’s new “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo” as a great summer jam.
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