4.6 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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A difficult encounter with a woman who claimed to be a feminist has got Yomi Adegoke wondering about false advertising - and Sofie Hagen shares a pretty brave confession.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.9 | Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour with me, Emma Barnett. |
0:08.3 | Each month we bring together a group of brilliant, intelligent, honest and funny women, |
0:13.0 | and we ask them to tell us what they've been thinking about, |
0:15.6 | what makes them happy, sad, furious or excited, or all of the above. And they bring us everything. Politics, |
0:23.0 | culture, relationships, love, hate, sport, the lot. Nothing, and I really mean nothing, is off |
0:29.7 | the table. So who have we got around the table? Comedian and podcaster Sophie Hagan, |
0:34.9 | vice executive editor Zing Singh, |
0:40.4 | and writer and journalist Yomi Adegoke. |
0:42.3 | Let's talk about jealousy. |
0:43.8 | I know you wanted to talk about this, Yomi. |
0:45.3 | Why is it in your mind? |
0:50.7 | Because I think one of the kind of byproducts of faux feminism, |
0:57.7 | mainstream feminism, has been this kind of weird scenario in which we kind of either absolve women from behaviours and emotions that everybody has and pretend that, you know, |
1:05.4 | if somebody does something that's really sort of nasty and bad and they're a woman, that for some |
1:10.0 | reason it's not, you know, |
1:11.6 | that it's kind of linked to something else. This is the patriarch's fault. You know, this isn't, |
1:16.0 | this isn't, like, it's like, there's this new kind of conversation that we're having that |
1:18.7 | almost suggests that women are just intrinsically good. And I think jealousy, because it really |
1:24.5 | truly is something that is weaponised, often wrongfully and often wrongfully |
1:28.5 | applied to women, you know, it was kind of that catfight narrative and we kind of have that, |
1:32.2 | you know, oh, girl on girl crime, these women are kind of jealous of each other and that's why |
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