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s04e48 | What Feminism Gets Wrong About Men, with Janice Fiamengo

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The Male Gaze and Sexual Harassment

I originally wanted to look at how ideas from academic feminism percolated out into the, into the wider worlds. So men now know that if they look in an inappropriate way, that can be considered a violation of decency. And so this interesting reversal has taken place where it's men who are being observed. They don't know when they're being looked at, but they know that they can be looked at and can be condemned if they're doing anything that pleases feminist complaint.

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