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The spiked podcast

59: 'We’re beginning to find sex disgusting'

The spiked podcast

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week’s spiked podcast is a #MeToo special. To get to grips with this moral panic, Joanna Williams and Luke Gittos discuss the sex-pest scandal gripping Westminster, and Lionel Shriver talks flirting, sex and prudes. spiked-online.com

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. If you're on any kind of social media, I am sure you've seen the hashtag me too me too me too the hashtag of the day which is me too

0:26.6

The very popular hashtag balance to out your pig. Everybody has seen me too, right?

0:33.0

Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast.

0:35.0

I'm Ella Wielen, assistant editor at Spiked.

0:38.0

And this week we're looking at the ongoing sexual harassment panic.

0:41.5

We start with Luke Gitos and Joanna Williams getting to grips with the so-called

0:45.4

Sex Minster scandal and Negate and end with a very special guest.

0:50.0

Lionel Shriver's thoughts on Me Too and Harvey Weinstein.

0:53.2

Following the Harvey Weinstein. Following the Havi Weinstein Exposay and the Me Too campaign, the sexual harassment panic has hit Westminster.

1:10.0

It all seemingly began with Negate, the name given to the fact that Michael Fallon touched radio host Julia Hartley Brewer's knee many years ago and was rebuffed.

1:20.0

Despite Hartley Brewer's protests, Fallon has since stepped down from his role as defense secretary as a consequence of this flirtation coming to light.

1:29.0

Following this, a list was circulated and on it, MPs were accused of being Hansy, having affairs, even

1:36.6

making inappropriate comments.

1:39.0

And all of this was talked about in the same breath as a serious allegation of rape made by labour activist

1:44.8

Bex Bailey.

1:45.8

So what to make of all of this?

1:48.9

Well, to talk it over, I spoke to Spiked Law Editor Luke GITos, the author of Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth,

1:56.2

from Stubbeville to Chad Evans, and Joanna Williams, Spiked's Education Editor who has a new book out called Women versus Feminism, Why We All

2:05.0

Need Liberating From the Gender Wars.

2:07.0

Hello Joanna and Luke, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast today.

2:11.0

No problem.

2:12.0

Hello.

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