Why Men Should Talk About Being Difficult

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Gina abusy fot this whole world of men's activists criticising other men for talking about their feelings, or it issues around masculininy. She asks: Why are girls to be told that they b angels, but to sink them below women? And so i think all these ideas that, you know, that women have to be perfect,. therefore, they're somehow seen as less than human, because to be human is to be floored. That's why you don't get difficult men. They just called men. It's like a male equivalent o woman's a.

In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we are joined by Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic, who claims that too many pioneers of women’s rights have been whitewashed or forgotten because society likes its heroines to be cuddly and safe. Lewis believes it’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women, and on Tuesday February 25 she came to the Intelligence Squared stage to set out the arguments of her new book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. She appeared in conversation with the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez and BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

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