Mary Harrington thinks feminism needs to go backwards, not forwards
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Mar 21 • 1HR 14M
Mary Harrington thinks feminism needs to go backwards, not forwards
On the podcast, I speak with Mary Harrington, author of "Feminism Against Progress"
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Has feminism gone too far? Mary Harrington, a UK writer, contributing editor at UnHerd, and author of Feminism Against Progress, thinks so. In fact, she thinks we need to go back — way back. Modern technologies, cosmetic surgeries that chase youth eternally, and interventions like the pill have not offered women freedom or empowerment, leading us to wonder if things should have stopped with the first wave. Certainly, Mary believes we should be moving in an entirely different direction.
I spoke with Mary in early March about her anti-futuristic vision of the future.
Mary Harrington thinks feminism needs to go backwards, not forwards
With all due respect, I believe that the works and ideas of Mary Harrington, Louise Perry, and Jordan Peterson are all ultimately "gateway drugs" to Mark Regnerus, Roy Baumeister, Beverly LaHaye, Mary Pride, and Phyllis Schafly, for better or worse (primarily worse).
And from there, it's ultimately a one-way express train to Margaret Atwood's worst nightmare and/or back to the Dark Ages for women (and indirectly for men as well). Or perhaps a weird kind of "archaeofuturism", as the neoreactionaries call it, the worst of the past, present. and future combined.
All I can say is, be very careful what you wish for, because we all know what they say about wishes. I have read some of Mary Harrington's UnHerd articles and her Substack, and she is a self proclaimed "reactionary feminist" who apparently wants to roll back not only the sexual revolution, but also the industrial revolution and perhaps even the Enlightenment as well. This is a classic example of Horseshoe Theory I think.