Emma Thompson said this week there's no such thing as romantic love and actually it's all about finding a partner. Louise says most people should be able to find someone who they can create a partnership. She thinks that the way that we conceptualize marriage now has been so much more a means of emotional self-fulfillment is a recipe for failed marriages. If you don't have childrenmarriage can really be treated as just sort of a cherry on life's cake but otherwise fairly meaningless, she argues.
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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