Feminism as we understand it today, in its mainstream sense, is a doctrine which argues that we can and should use technology to flatten the differences between the sexes. And what's wrong with that? There's a lot of women who would actually disagree with you who say, look, I live in a society which is freer than ever before. But they're not without cost. The feminism of freedom over care when it comes or rather tech enabled freedom over care in the domain of feminism has been waging war on relations between men and women. On the war, it's been waging against our own babies. So let me back up a little bit; if you imagine it's 1910
Mary Harrington is a writer who sometimes goes by the moniker of ‘Reactionary Feminist’. She is a Contributing Editor at Unherd and the author of ‘Feminism Against Progress’ available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684514878/
Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.
00:00 Intro
01:44 The Central Case of Mary’s New Book
12:53 What Does Feminism Mean Today?
17:30 The Unspoken Costs of the Sexual Revolution
26:00 Are Women Waking Up to These Issues?
31:56 The ‘Cyborg Revolution’
46:15 The Argument Against the Contraceptive Pill
53:32 How the Left React to Mary’s Case
1:08:05 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?