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Hi and welcome to Wait, Really? — a newsletter on cultural obsessions and absurdities, feminism and gender politics, historical tidbits, internet musing, and whatever else crosses my desk and brain that I think is worth sending out, typically because I find it either delightful or rage-inducing or some combination of the two.

I’m your host, Jessica Bennett, writer and contributing editor at The New York Times, author of the books “Feminist Fight Club” and “This Is 18,” and current journalism professor at NYU, teaching graduate students how to “report the zeitgeist,” whatever that means! I’m also the co-host of the podcast, “In Retrospect.”

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I’ll send you a newsletter about whatever I’m chewing on in a given week, whether it be pop culture or linguistics, politics or the workplace. I’ll try not to regurgitate what’s already out there, and I’m going to try to keep it somewhat light. You can check out some of my previous newsletters to see if you like the vibe here.

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