The most incredible story in that is of a French princess called Mary Bonaparte. She was heavily influenced by her friend Freud who had this theory that clitoral orgasms were like a bit something for kids and actually when you were a proper full-blown woman you should only have an orgasm through penitentiary intercourse. Women are having cosmetic labia plastic on perfectly normal genitals that they now feel are sort of somehow disgusting half of women in the labia produce outside the outer labia but that's not something you ever see particularly in pornography right so there are there are a whole is women who think that they are freaks when they are perfectly normal looking I want to connect to some of the
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. Change is never easy, it requires putting up a fight, going against the status quo, and if you’re a woman - this may require you to be difficult. In 2020 Helen Lewis, staff writer for The Atlantic, joined us on stage to discuss the lives of some of history’s complicated and contradictory fighters for female freedom, and their refusal to conform to societal expectations. Helen was joined by Caroline Criado Perez, journalist and author of Invisible Women, which is now also a podcast. And the conversation was chaired by broadcaster Samira Ahmed who had just won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay. Together they examine why women who challenge the status quo are often seen as threatening or intimidating and why the fight for change is far from perfect.
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