Laura Bates on extreme misogyny groups online. Getting into debt. Young women and rheumatoid arthritis

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Laura Bates is founder of the Everyday Sexism Project. In her latest book – Men Who Hate Women - she traces the roots of extreme misogyny across a complex network of online groups - extending from Men's Rights Activists and Pick up Artists to Men Going their Own Way, Trolls and the Incel movement. She explains how they operate and how she hopes drawing parallels with other extremist movements around the world will help us to understand what makes them attractive to men and boys..

Women – and specifically young women – have always been hugely over-represented when it comes to debt. Since the pandemic, charities are hearing from more and more who find themselves in financial difficulty. Anna who’s now 22 shares how she's managed to clear considerable debt. Sue Anderson from debt charity Step Change talks bout the trends they’re seeing when it comes to women and money. Plus financial campaigner Alice Tapper on why she thinks the increasing use of ‘buy-now-pay-later’ methods need much more scrutiny,. This week is Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week. It's a disease that affects three times more women than men under the age of 65. Women tend to develop it younger than men, with symptoms typically appearing between the ages of 30 and 50 – some can even start to develop it in their teens. So what’s it like to be a young woman living with the condition? Yulanda Sabrina is a singer and was diagnosed five years ago at the age of 28. She speaks to Jenni along with Clare Jacklin, Chief Executive of the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society.

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0:41.0	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Hour podcast for Thursday the 10th of
0:47.3	September. Good morning. In today's program a new book by the founder of the
0:52.1	Everyday Sexism Project Laura Bates. It's called
0:55.8	Men Who Hate Women. What has she learned by spending 18 months pretending to be a
1:02.1	young man called Alex, trawling through what's known as the
1:06.2	Manosphere online.
1:09.0	In Rumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week, the young women who suffer from an invisible but debilitating disability, which is often not recognised.
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1:24.0	Now advice about spending money used to be pretty uncompromising.
1:28.0	From my parents and grandparents came, neither borrower nor lender be, and if you can't afford it, don't buy it.
1:36.0	Well, there seems to have been a significant change in that philosophy.
1:41.0	Buy now and pay later, which is kind of what a credit card offers you, has now become an increasingly common way for the young to get what they want, when they want it, online. A number of companies offer the chance to defer payment, receive
1:56.7	the goods and then complete the purchasing stages and debt particularly among young women is rising just as the UK goes into recession
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