"Rape culture isn't a culture in which rape is common. It's a culture where rape is normalized and accepted," she says. The idea that all men are rapists didn't come for feminism, writes the author. "The justice system has really no answer for sexual bilence against women and children."
We are in an era of crisis, collapse, and reactionary tyrants, argues Laurie Penny, but we are also witnessing a transformation: a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and whose bodies matter. In her new book, Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback, Laurie offers an urgent analysis of this moment of sexual politics we are living through. Our host for the discussion is cultural historian and broadcaster Shahidha Bari.
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