Women don't know just to look at a man whether or not he falls into that category it's a kind of it's a mostly invisible thing and I think it's something that we just have to reckon with. The sexual revolution has brought us into a situation where women are to a far greater extent vulnerable to the kind of he said she said dynamic which may have felt like something that a woman would have wanted to go along with but then looks in the cold light of day much more exploitative. There is this huge gray area which is just incredibly difficult to negotiate especially if you're in a stranger's flat particularly if there's a power dynamic between you.
Louise Perry has been described as the most influential young feminist in Britain. She claims in her book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution that the contemporary world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn is harming women and she calls for a radical challenge to what she sees as the failed liberal feminism of the 20th century. Meanwhile writer Mary Harrington argues that the belief in the progressive march of history is misguided and that new technology, far from liberating women, has trapped them into commodifying their bodies in the false belief that they are empowering themselves. In this conversation hosted by Alice Thompson, columnist and interviewer at The Times, they present their case for why they think progress is at odds with feminism.
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