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TRIGGERnometry

Why 'Progress' is Bad for Women - Mary Harrington

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Mary Harrington is a writer who sometimes goes by the moniker of ‘Reactionary Feminist’. She is a Contributing Editor at Unherd and the author of ‘Feminism Against Progress’ available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684514878/

Our first interview with Mary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgptSG3V2B4
Mary’s Substack:
Reactionaryfeminist.substack.com
Mary’s Twitter:
https://twitter.com/moveincirclesv

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:44 The Central Case of Mary’s New Book
12:53 What Does Feminism Mean Today?
17:30 The Unspoken Costs of the Sexual Revolution
26:00 Are Women Waking Up to These Issues?
31:56 The ‘Cyborg Revolution’
46:15 The Argument Against the Contraceptive Pill
53:32 How the Left React to Mary’s Case
1:08:05 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

Transcript

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0:00.0

You may have heard about people's postcode lottery, and often wondered how does it work.

0:06.0

Playing is simple.

0:07.0

You sign up for a monthly subscription of 12 pounds, guaranteeing you entry into every draw,

0:12.0

and your ticket is your postcode.

0:15.0

Prizes are one every day, including millionaire street, where one lucky postcode wins a share

0:21.0

of 1 million pounds every Saturday.

0:24.0

Also, at the end of the month, players in one postcode area win a share of a minimum

0:29.0

of £3.2 million, a minimum of 33% of every ticket goes to charities and good causes across

0:37.0

Great Britain and beyond, with a staggering £1.1 billion raised so far.

0:43.0

So, for a chance to win, sign up before midnight on the 24th of August to play in the September

0:49.0

Draws, and the next winning postcode could be yours.

0:52.0

PPL managed lotries and behalf of good causes, 18-plus conditions apply.

0:57.0

Play responsibly, not available in Northern Ireland.

1:00.0

The contraceptive pill is the first transhumanist technology.

1:04.0

It's the first major widespread social biomedical intervention which aims not at fixing something

1:12.0

which has gone wrong with normal health, but upgrading normal, you know, in line with what people want.

1:17.0

It's impossible to separate liberation from commodification.

1:21.0

And the same goes as well for the fertility industry, which is to say the moment in theory I can control my fertility,

1:29.0

it becomes theoretically possible to commodify my fertility.

1:32.0

I've argued that the technologies which enable us to flatten the differences between the sexes,

1:38.0

fundamentally beginning with the pill and abortion, are in logical continuity

1:43.0

with the technologies now being employed by transgender identified people to become, as they see it, their true selves.

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