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On this episode we give our take on the #metoo campaign and get onto a number of other related issues, such as gender and domestic violence.
We also discuss some solutions to the issues highlighted by the #metoo campaign, including bringing in Marxist perspectives from Alyx Gorman and Helen Razer from the event ‘On Your Marx’.
Other stuff covered on the episode is ‘Harry Potter fan gets blocked by J.K. Rowling after asking Johnny Depp question‘ and the wage penalty for motherhood but the opposite for fathers.
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Clips:
War on Women ‘Broken Record’, Michigan Democrat says vote for her because she has no penis, #MeToo: What’s next? – The Feed, Kesha ‘Praying’.
[…] Some of the points that came up in Sam’s workshop that we have covered on previous episodes are call in versus call out culture and Men of Colour being more likely to be called out for sexism. We also covered the #MeToo movement on episode 191. […]