The pervasive hatred directed towards women and girls
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 147 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:00.0 | It is three minutes after 10. A very good morning indeed to you. Would you think less of me if I told |
| 0:06.5 | you that I don't quite get this? And that given that I have children myself in the very relevant |
| 0:13.8 | age range, then I really should get it. It's weird how some of the things that we talk about together feel very much part of my life. |
| 0:24.5 | The cogs have meshed. |
| 0:26.8 | I speak of things I know. |
| 0:28.9 | Or if I don't fully appreciate them, I take two calls and suddenly a whole world of understanding opens up in front of me. |
| 0:36.1 | And of all the subjects that really I should have a better grasp of, a better understanding |
| 0:41.8 | of, misogyny among schoolboys, misogyny in general and misogyny among schoolboys would |
| 0:48.2 | be one that I would presume, looking at this program from the outside, I had full understanding of. |
| 0:56.5 | I know exactly what misogyny is. |
| 0:59.0 | I don't obviously suffer from it, but I obviously know people who do in all of the most |
| 1:05.5 | imaginable and some of the less imaginable ways. |
| 1:08.8 | I have watched children grow up over the course of the last 20 years. |
| 1:14.7 | Tons of children, boys and girls. And I am aware of the influences that they face and the |
| 1:21.1 | access that they have to things that we didn't have access to as young children. Most obviously |
| 1:26.0 | pornography. Most obviously violent pornography in terms of |
| 1:31.1 | things that might be damaging, things that are likely to be corrupting, things that once seen can |
| 1:37.0 | never be unseen. And I can imagine like everybody else can. What impact that might have on young minds moving forward. |
| 1:47.3 | At risk of sounding a bit like Ali G, is it because I don't have sons? Is that why? Because it |
| 1:52.8 | shouldn't, it should be the other way. I don't know. Is it because I don't have sons that I don't |
| 1:57.7 | see what you see? And please God, and I hope that you can never know for |
| 2:03.2 | sure that if they did they would have told me I don't think my daughters have been on the |
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