Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-01-15
Chris Williamson & Mary Harrington: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #732
Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Private Life Online - Mary Harrington - #732
Mary Harrington is writer, columnist and author. Everyone has the temptation to share their life on the internet, but where does the line of sharing stop and oversharing begin?
Mary Harrington recommended Gender by Ivan Illich and Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. Chris Williamson discussed The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition by Charlie Mackesy.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Gender
Recommended“ivanich writes beautifully about this in gender which I strongly recommend men as a book if you're interested in in the the Deep history of of the relations between the Sexes”
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Invisible Women
Recommended“this is what Caroline CR Perez talks about when she in the great another great book invisible women where she writes about how um how so much of the built-in environment and the physical environment and tools”
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The Gruffalo
Discussed“one of the most like sanity reinforcing periods of my year is when I go home for Christmas and I'm at Mom and Dad's house and the The Gruffalo comes on right and I watch the gruff”
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition
Discussed“or you know like the boy the mole The Fox and the just and it always makes me maybe it's just because Christmas is a kindful Whimsical time of year”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Feminism against Progress
“one of the themes one of the themes in I've written about in feminism against progress is the the those ways in which like men and women have both always worked you know”
Plugged Feminism against Progress
“I mean here's here's one example um talking in very general terms I mean I've made the argument that the problem with Trad wives as such is that they're just not Trad enough um in the sense that the what they're harking back to is a sort of mid mid 20th century template”
Plugged Feminism against Progress
“well I guess that's just a variation on talking about productive households because I mean when again in feminism against progress the the the analogy I've given is weaving”