I've had serious sexual harassment type things and I have complained. People haven't like, oh it's all in the past but it isn't is it? No absolutely not. What you're saying reminds me of two things that I think are perfect illustrations. One is when the Me Too movement began in France, Catherine D'Nerve who's this older revered actress spoke out against it. The antithesis of that was when Alexander, representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, she was called a fucking bitch by a male republican representative. She gave an incredible speech which will go down in feminist history as a great example of feminist rhetoric. That disruption is part of what my book aims
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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