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#596 - Mary Harrington - Feminism Is No Longer Helping Women

Modern Wisdom

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Is There a Progress in the Status of Women?

"I don't think it's possible to prove in any convincing way that the absolute sum of human felicity or virtue ... is better now than it was a couple of thousand years ago," she says. "The moment you've just, the moment you've pointed a metric, you've already assumed the truth of what you set out to prove." The author has been so interested in female interesexual competition recently because it's more interesting than male intere sexual competition.

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