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On this week’s Gabfest, Invisibilia co-host Hanna Rosin joins New York magazine’s Noreen Malone and Slate’s Outward blog editor June Thomas to discuss Peggy Orenstein’s new book, Girls and Sex, “they” as a gender neutral pronoun, and whether the term “attention seeking” is sexist.
Other items discussed in the show:
- “The Girls and Sex Problem Affects Adult Women, Too,” by Ann Friedman
- “Body Language,” by Isaac Chotiner
- “Sext and the Single Girl,” by Cindi Leive
- “Parents Need to Talk to Their Daughters About the Joys of Sex, Not Just the Dangers,” by Sharon Holbrook
- “Who’s ‘They’?” by Amanda Hess
- “Sorry, Grammar Nerds. The Singular ‘They’ Has Been Declared Word of the Year,” by Jeff Guo
- “She? Ze? They? What’s in a Gender Pronoun?” by Jessica Bennett
- “ ‘Mx.’? Did the Times Adopt a New, Gender-Neutral Courtesy Title?” by Philip B. Corbett
- “Don’t Laugh: I Have a Serious Reason for Raising My Cats Gender-Neutral,” by Lauren R. Taylor
- “How ‘She Just Wants Attention’ Became America’s Hottest Sexiest Insult,” by Rebecca Onion
DoubleX recommendations:
June recommends “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”, Episode 6 of American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson
Hanna recommends “The Voyeur’s Motel,” by Gay Talese
Noreen recommends Everybody Wants Some!! by Richard Linklater
This podcast was produced by Ann Heppermann. Our intern is Shiva Bayat.
Outro song: Mariah Carey’s “Thirsty”
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