Hear Me Out: Feminism Is Dying (But It Can Be Saved)

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… which wave is this, anyway? There’s no denying that the feminist movement looks different now than it did 50 years ago — and in some ways, that’s a good thing. But there’s an argument to be made that the modern movement skews politically progressive… so much so that it’s leaving some women, and some issues, behind. Phyllis Chesler, author and second-wave feminist, joins us. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie. You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus! Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is here me out. I'm Celeste Hedley. Let's talk about the F word. I mean feminism.
0:07.0	Obviously we're not going to sit down and debate whether women deserve equal rights. They do.
0:12.0	And in a lot of ways, this is a really good time to be a
0:14.7	woman in America. We have a female vice president. The gender pay gap is still
0:20.0	significant but getting smaller and it has been since 1979 more women are
0:25.1	able to pursue higher education than ever before. Even look at last week's Iowa
0:29.3	Caucasus where Donald Trump lost one county and a Republican woman,
0:33.5	Nicky Haley, was the candidate who won it.
0:36.4	Of course, that's not the whole story.
0:38.8	We're also seeing restrictions on reproductive rights,
0:41.5	a hostile political climate, and intersectional issues
0:44.8	that hurt black and brown women the most. So for still fighting for equality of
0:50.0	the sexes, why does some women feel like feminism is failing?
0:54.7	Why are so many young women in America marching and committing civil disobedience to
1:00.5	so many issues that have little to do with American women's rights.
1:05.0	Phyllis Chesler, feminist scholar and writer,
1:08.0	joins us to argue that feminism is dying,
1:11.0	but that it can be saved.
1:13.2	Stay with us.
1:14.0	Welcome back to Hear Me Out.
1:22.4	I'm Celeste Hedley. Feminism is one of those words that causes a lot of people to bristle, both males and females.
1:30.0	Part of that is because there are a lot of misconceptions out there about what feminism is, what it means.
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