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Why 'Progress' is Bad for Women - Mary Harrington
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What Does Feminism Now Mean, Mary?
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The contraceptive pill is the first transhumanist technology. It aims not at fixing something which has gone wrong with normal health, but upgrading normal in line with what people want. And that's a radically different paradigm for what biomedical technologies can and should do. That was legalized and spread like wildfire in the 1960s. downstream, downstream of that came a whole load of other technological transformation. You know, we're a good way further down, down the path that that started. But my, my, yeah, my argument is that, you know, we became cyborgs and women becoming cyborgs, arguably ahead of men.
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