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408. Women in Dresses & Bad Feminism - Ella Whelan

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Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Ella Whelan is the co convenor of the Battle of Ideas festival and a freelance journalist and author of What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism. She frequently features as a political commentator on TV and radio, specialising in the relationship between free speech, feminism and women's liberation. Get Ella’s Book What Women Want: https://amzn.to/4bF1EPK Check Out Battle of Ideas: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk Follow Ella on X: https://twitter.com/Ella_M_Whelan _____________ Visit ExpressVPN.com/HERETICS, and get three extra months for free! _____________ Get my book The Psychology of Secrets: https://amzn.to/4alYcs8 Listen to our extra content: http://andrewgold.locals.com Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you are going to have a misogyny bill, which I wouldn't like you to have, you can't have it including men in dresses.

0:08.0

Police time is so limited and so necessary in certain areas.

0:12.0

Why spread it so thinly over all this bullshit basically?

0:15.4

Increasingly politicians have this sort of very egotistical view that they control

0:19.9

or they should control the minds of the public that they are in charge of setting what's right and proper.

0:26.0

They're the great ones and we're just the oaks that need to be taught how to act.

0:31.0

I see it completely the other way around.

0:34.0

So how have we gotten to this point then where more people than should seem to believe that men can

0:39.2

literally be women, like literally, literally women and women can be men? I think feminism is to blame in a way.

0:44.8

Speaking as a blah blah my lived experience as a blah blah

0:48.9

the thing that's most egregious to me is that.

0:57.5

Welcome to another episode of Heretics. This one is going to ruffle a few feathers of course.

1:00.1

It is Ella Wielen.

1:03.0

Ella Wielen is the assistant editor at Spiked.

1:06.1

She frequently features as a political commentator on TV and radio

1:09.4

specializing in the relationship between free speech,

1:12.3

feminism, and women's liberation.

1:14.6

She's quite anti-feminism and pro-women's liberation.

1:18.3

I mean it's all semantics, isn't it?

1:19.9

But that's quite an important point that she makes.

1:22.1

Of course, she is the author of what women want,

1:26.1

fun, freedom, and an end to feminism. She is also the co-convener of the Battle of Ideas. I was there last year where I was interviewing people.

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