Good afternoon. I am the directors. It is a great pleasure and honor to moderate this panel. And really it is a celebration is a wonderful new book. But we are going to do this afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for question and discussion. And we have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion. They will speak in the order that we have determined, but it will begin with a brief presentation of the books and its main issues in history. She is the director of the center for gender and sexuality off which is wonderful institution that we are happy to collaborate with, and she is the author of wedlock the perils of Marriage Equality. Catherine has been working on marriage, gender justice, transitional justice, issues of gender and race in law, legal theorist, and academic, and activist, a public intellectual an amazing human being. Ibeing. I am just so happy to be celebrating her this afte
Editorial more and reward and in the end instead of six hours we went close to ten hours. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Good afternoon. I am the director of the institute for research on women, gender and sensuality and it is a great pleasure and great honor to be used this afternoon to moderate this panel and the celebration of a wonderful new book, a book on marriage eat quality by catherine frankie. What we are going to do this the afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for questions and discussion. We have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion and introduce them all briefly altogether and they will speak in deep water that we determined. It is all going to begin with a presentation of the book end its main issues of history by catherine frankie. She is the professor of law, director of the center for gender and sexual along which is a wonderful instit
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My digital producer and cohost is here bringing in all of your feedback and holy cow is there a lot of feedback. As you can imagine. This is probably the most divisive show we have done in a long time. The type of responses are extremely emotional. And a lot of people are not happy we are doing the show. I gotta honor that voice, first up lauren, i am quite certain these mens rights activists got all the air time they needed last month after the usc b shooting. Allison says i will not be tuning in tonight. I have no use for organizations that give voice to bigots. And mark says, its a good question, the question is not whether or not its tile for a mens movement, its what the movement, what attempt to achieve, we heap to answer that, mark. Weve lost fathers tweeting in. Jorge says many of us fathers do more for our children than state, federal government think we do. There is too much emphasis on the dead beats and the rolling stones, as you can imagine today is going to be hot. Yeah.