Mary Beard & Julia Gillard on the 10-year anniversary of the misogyny speech
A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard
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The Power of Women in Greek Mythology
There's a whole kind of concatenation of things, which is that women in power means bad. The more you look at all these stories of powerful women in Greek mythology or any early mythology, the more you discover that women only are imagined to take power in order that the story can say they really fucked up. So everything you see around you is confirmatory or the idea that women can't hack it. We're so surrounded with that that we don't notice it. You just, I think, don’t notice it. And I've got, I need to mention another person of whom I disapprove a bit: Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie. All over again, it
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