I prefer to leave my own marriage kind of as a black box because it doesn't just belong to me. I'm not confident enough that the future is going to be an abundant one like mine was in the 1990s. Getting married means choosing one person which means settling pretty much by definition so it's not meaningful to talk about not compromising. You have to make a feminist case for if for those mothers who want children for being back into solidarity with the opposite sex, she says.
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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