The New Silencing: Women Versus the Manosphere (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligent Squared, where great minds meet. I'm senior producer Mia Sarenti. In this episode we return for part two of our recent live panel event with Jess Phillips, Juliette Nicholson, and Joanna Scanlon. Together they explore the changing landscape for women since me too. From the rise of the Manosphere and violence against women and girls to the pressures created by social media.

The conversation was hosted by BBC News editor Katie Razzle. If you haven't heard part one, we recommend jumping back an episode to catch up. And a brief content warning for this discussion, which contains some explicit language and discussions of sexual and domestic violence. Now let's return to the conversation. Live at Conway Hall in London.

So much of this conversation is being had online at the moment, and I I guess my question, not to you, Joanna, because I know you don't want to talk about tech, but are social media platforms, do you think, amplifying misogyny, or are they actually actively reshaping attitudes to women? That the both things. It started with an amplification, but now it is uh you know, look there is an algorithm. that will literally target you based on your age, your gender, whatever it is. I mean look that's I tell you I'll tell you which bit of uh the patriarchy has definitely picked up on menopause. The one that pushes all the adverts at me. Um like the the um Mm. Definitely that there is uh it is

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