‘I don’t believe in progress’: Mary Harrington on how modern feminism has harmed women
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This week Winston speaks to journalist Mary Harrington about her new book, Feminism Against Progress.
Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington is a contributing editor at Unherd
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Make Sex Wild Again
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The notorious Infowars host Alex Jones once opined that he didn’t like the government ‘putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay’. CNBC called this a ‘disturbing and ridiculous conspiracy theory’, and Jones is noted for wild and sometimes actionable claims. But if we read ‘gay’ in the colloquial sense, as offensive
Monday
Covid and the rise of the Zoom class
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On November 6, 2021, the California petroleum heiress Ivy Getty married the photographer Tobias Engel at San Francisco City Hall. The venue is in the Tenderloin district, and the Tenderloin is at the heart of the city’s drug and homelessness crises. Drug abuse is rife in San Francisco, which the SF Chronicle reported in 2019
Tuesday
The trans war on the body
Trans rights are changing what it is to be human
Saturday
Is the sexual counterrevolution coming?
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Freddy Gray discusses the revolt against sexual liberalism with Mary Harrington, Louise Perry and Default Friend.
Wednesday
The sexual counterrevolution is coming
America’s young elite is turning against free love
Tuesday
Why I’m no fan of the Tories’ free childcare promises
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Why are our big three political parties so keen to out do each other in their commitment to separating children from their parents? Labour trumpeted its manifesto offer of 30 hours of childcare for all two, three and four-year-olds by promising a ‘radical expansion of free childcare for all’. Not to be outdone, the Lib
Thursday
Labour’s women-friendly work policies are anything but
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Labour has pledged to close the gender pay gap by 2030 and the party has chosen today – ‘Equal Pay Day’ – to launch its supposedly women-friendly work policies. The party plans to force small and medium-sized companies to perform gender pay gap audits, just as bigger companies of 250 are required to do already. This sounds all
