Mary Harrington on Feminism

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Mary Harrington debate whether or not societies have made significant progress towards gender equality. Mary Harrington is a writer and a contributing editor at UnHerd. She is the author of Feminism Against Progress. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Mary Harrington discuss second-wave feminism and the downstream consequences of the sexual revolution; the unintended effects of industrialization and contraceptive use; and whether the contraceptive revolution has, as Harrington argues, brought about a greater commodification of female sexuality. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	I feel very protective of the mothers who do make those choices and very very sort of defensive on behalf of every single stay-at-home mom who's ever had somebody instantly lose interest in them at a party when she says what she does all day.
0:43.2	You know this happens a lot every stay at home mom knows what it feels like when somebody
0:46.9	says so what do you do and you say oh I'm a mom and you can already see them looking
0:50.1	over your shoulder.
0:51.2	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:54.0	Today I am
0:57.0	I am starting the podcast with two slightly different announcements.
1:04.8	The first is that persuasion has partnered with the Civil Discourse Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, to bring a set of interesting speakers to MIT, some of whom we will feature in conversation on the good fight.
1:24.8	The first of those is Mary Harrington,
1:28.0	an interesting feminist philosopher
1:31.8	with whom I debate debated in an interesting,
1:34.0	if sometimes somewhat contentious way
1:37.0	about how much progress we have really
1:40.0	made towards equality between men and women on today's podcast episode.
1:46.0	You will be hearing more about this conversation and the initiative at MIT from Alex Byrne and Brett Scho who lead it.
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