I want people to stop and think about how patriarchy doesn't just control our bodies and what we can and can't do with our bodies it controls our language. Every two or three weeks a woman will swear somewhere and the world turns upside down because she said fuck or shit and I'm like are you fucking kidding me there are crimes being committed against women every day and language is what really got you upset so I think we really have to look at them differently. Let's let's get on to oh there's so many simply sins to choose from it's very like this so violence now one of the things that you said towards the end is that rape only exists because men do not fear women
International Women's Week on Intelligence Squared. There are seven necessary sins for women and girls, that's according to Egyptian writer and activist Mona Eltahawy. Anger, ambition, profanity, violence, attention, lust, and power, are all attributes that the patriarchy sees as vices for women, she says, but these should be harnessed as virtues. On this episode of the podcast, which was recorded in 2021, Mona was joined in conversation by physicist and broadcaster Helen Czerski to discuss how women and girls can tap into their inner fury, and rather than surviving the patriarchy, they can dismantle it.
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