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The Owen Jones Podcast

Jeremy Clarkson's Repulsive Attack on Meghan Markle: Why Men Must Speak Up

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Clarkson's repulsive attack on Meghan Markle in The Sun newspaper has rightly been widely condemned. But what he said can't be seen in isolation. This is just one gruesome symptom of a system of male domination of women - and it's why all men must speak up.

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0:00.0

hatred of women, misogyny, is ingrained in our culture and our society. It's the inevitable

0:06.4

consequence of millennia, of a system which exists of male domination of women, patriarchy,

0:14.7

which is enforced through violence and terror. When we talk about misogyny being ingrained

0:22.2

in our culture, we mean the rhetoric, the discourse, the conversations which normalise the

0:28.6

violent subjugation of women by men. Now this brings me to the now notorious article

0:35.8

penned by Jeremy Clarkson. Let's just discuss this featured article. Now he begins by suggesting

0:42.7

Meghan Markle obviously used some vivid bedroom promises to turn Prince Harry into worry of

0:47.3

woke, itself a misogynistic attempt to portray Markle as a malevolent manipulative seducer.

0:53.5

He goes on to say about Markle that, I hate her, not like I hate Nicola Sturgeon of Rose West,

0:59.6

I hate her on a cellular level. Now he brings up two of the women, intentioning lumping

1:05.2

the Scottish First Minister herself on the receiving end of frequent misogynistic bile

1:09.7

in with a notorious serial killer. And then he says, at night I'm enabled to speak as I lie there,

1:14.9

grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked with the streets of

1:19.1

every town in Britain while the crowds chant shame and throw lumps at excrement at her. Now to

1:23.4

be clear, if this isn't clear, we need to be clear when we're talking about this, this is a violent

1:28.2

sexualised fantasy. It's the idea of that he's conjured up and penned down of an obsessive

1:36.0

level of hatred, which is what he's there confessing to, there's no other way of interpreting it,

1:39.8

to such a degree that he's possessed by this idea, this fantasy, operating a woman of colour

1:47.8

naked through the streets where bayon mob's scream abuse hit her. Now it's easy to dismiss

1:54.7

the Sun newspaper as just a viral rack, which it is by the way, with a history demonising,

2:01.1

well you name it really, Muslims, migrants, refugees, gay people, minors, Liverpool fans,

2:06.4

as well as objectifying and degrading women. But the Sun is one of the most powerful newspapers

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