Caitlin Moran

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Over the last ten years, author, journalist, and broadcaster Caitlin Moran has learnt that we have to allow feminism to evolve as both society and our own priorities change. In this chat with Fearne, Caitlin explores the benefits of social media in amplifying women’s voices, why it’s so important for women to stop picking apart their own bodies, and how best to prepare children for the adult world they’ll soon find themselves in.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frank chat about eating disorders and sexual assault.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the podcast that celebrates
0:08.1	the process of learning and allowing ourselves to evolve. Today I'm meeting, oh my goodness
0:13.8	I'm so excited, a feminist icon, it's Catlin Moran. This is also the first time that women
0:18.7	across the world of all ages wherever they are have been able to communicate with each
0:22.2	other. So when I have to tell my children the bad news about being a woman, the good news
0:26.0	is also, but you're part of this amazing tribe of 4.5 billion women and we've invented
0:31.4	this thing called feminism which is this amazing informal network where women are identifying
0:35.7	these problems, talking to each other and coming up with solutions and although it's
0:39.6	a difficult time to be a young woman, you know I have no doubt that things will get
0:42.9	better. I know that our daughter's lives will be better than ours were.
0:45.8	Catlin is a journalist author and broadcaster and when it was released in 2011 her book How
0:52.0	to Be a Woman was for many of us a first introduction to 21st century feminism. Now she's written
0:58.1	more than a woman because it turns out all these conversations continue to change as society
1:03.8	shifts and as we move through different stages of our lives feminism isn't just something
1:09.4	you can do once, tick the box done, thank you very much and can I just say that more than
1:14.3	a woman is the funniest book I've ever read. I laughed, I howled out loud as well as
1:21.6	it being super poignant and very very beautiful. Now I will warn you there is plenty of fruity
1:30.2	tootie language, wild fruity language in this chat. So if you're not wearing headphones
1:35.8	you might want to dig them out especially if there are young people about. Warning warning.
1:41.0	This Christmas discover the Whitney Houston story you never knew. From the right or bohemian
1:51.8	rap city. I want to dance with somebody only in cinemas now.
2:06.1	This episode is sponsored by more than insurance. They partnered with dogs for good a charity
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