Lulu Miller
Appearances
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Hey, y'all. Lulu here. Okay, so before we get going with today's show, I'm going to hand it off to producer Sara Khari, who's going to tell us a brief story.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Lulu, Radiolab. So just before the break, Ruth Bader Ginsburg needed a way to convince an audience of men that discrimination on the basis of sex is wrong.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Radiolab Lulu, when we left off, the Supreme Court was getting ready to hear a case about gender discrimination. That's gender discrimination against men. I'll let Julia take it from here.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
And just coasting on that swell of gratitude, we wanted to thank you. All of you listening, whether you ever do chest compressions on someone or not, you are helping keep us alive at Radiolab simply by listening to the show each week, maybe by sharing it with your friends, perhaps by donating or becoming a member. Radiolab is alive because of you. You are part of our chain of survival.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
And if you are feeling moved to support us, you can sign up to become a member at any time at RadioLab.org slash donate. On with the show. This is Radiolab. I'm Lulu Miller.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
It is Women's History Month, sort of a weird time to be celebrating, you know, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the elimination of certain Title IX protections and recent attempts to freeze government funding to proposals that use the word woman or women or gender. Sort of feels like an avalanche of rights being stripped away. And all this kind of got me thinking about how rights are won.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
You know, sometimes it's straightforward. The founding fathers believed certain people should get rights, wrote them down, and boom, there they were. But sometimes it is sneakier. And so today, we're bringing you a story about one of the all-time greatest sneaks. It is a story of brilliant legal strategy of navigating loopholes and Trojan horses and beer. So much beer. And so, cheers. Cheers.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
In honor of a more side door entrance to legal rights, happy Women's History Month. Please enjoy a tale from our sister show, More Perfect, that originally aired a few years back called Sex Appeal.
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Everybody's Got One
Hey, Lulu here. So a few months back, our illustrator, Jared Bartman, got a difficult prompt. We asked him to design a cute tote bag based on our incredibly morbid episode, Cheating Death, and Jared was stumped. How do you create something plucky and cheerful and design forward about the inevitability? of dying. So he brooded and he doodled and then one day it hit him.
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Everybody's Got One
It's really similar. Hey, I'm Lulu Miller. And I'm Molly Webster. This is Radiolab. And today... It's like red velvet bread. Look at that.
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Everybody's Got One
We are dredging up an episode from the archives. It's called Everybody's Got One. And I really love this story so very much. I hope you enjoy. A round loaf of homemade bread.
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Everybody's Got One
And it comes to us from our contributing editor, Heather Radke. Yeah, I'm not even on staff. And I wish you were, producer Becca Bressler.
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Everybody's Got One
But so, okay, placenta comes out. It releases. It leaves no trace. It leaves no scar. It knows it's time to let those grappling hooks go. It comes out. And then what's the end of the journey?
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This episode was reported by Heather Radke and Becca Bressler and produced by Becca Bressler and Pat Walters with help from Matt Kilty and Maria Paz Gutierrez. Special thanks to Diana Bianchi, Julia Katz, Sam Bajadi, Celia Bardwell-Jones, and Hannah Ingraham. Special thanks also to my placenta for getting me here. Thanks. Thanks to the placentas of all the people who made this program.
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Everybody's Got One
Thanks for building such talented humans. And finally, to the placenta that made you, listener. Thanks for making such a dorky human who likes our program. Really appreciate it.
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Everybody's Got One
I mean, okay, I was pregnant, and I think I thought it was just like extra lining on my uterus. But it's not. It's not even yours.
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Everybody's Got One
It is easily my favorite design ever. And because it's sort of this secret code about death, it's kind of like carrying carpe diem around on your shoulder. Bye. Bye. Bye. A zipper. So go take a peek at Radiolab.org slash join. That's Radiolab.org slash join. And that's all. Thank you. On with the show.
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Everybody's Got One
Cool. Okay. I'm so excited. Educate me on this organ I have had and know nothing about. All right.
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Everybody's Got One
Wait, wait, wait. Can I just ask, isn't our whole point to carry on? Isn't that what evolution has built us to do? Why would this moment where it's about to happen be so combative?
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Lulu. Molly. Heather. Becca. Radiolab. Today we are telling the story of the placenta, a story which has revealed to us just how much pregnancy itself is like a war between the fetus and the parent's body. And what we were just getting around to was why. Right.