I'll Enjoy It by Myself

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i think it's vital to understanding both domestic violence and rapen sexual assault tat, you know, why don't women leave? What women are at most risk of being killed with in the six months in which they leave. Women who are being abused often are being financially abused as well. They cannot afford to leave. And all that stuff explains why women keep going back. It explains why they are not the perfect victim that court seems to want and demand in those cases. I mean, couln'd we just enjoy that? Well, i'm sure we can. That be wrong. You all seem to think us verys re very po faced. I'll enjoy it by myself.

In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we are joined by Helen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic, who claims that too many pioneers of women’s rights have been whitewashed or forgotten because society likes its heroines to be cuddly and safe. Lewis believes it’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women, and on Tuesday February 25 she came to the Intelligence Squared stage to set out the arguments of her new book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. She appeared in conversation with the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez and BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed.

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