Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry
A podcast about sexual politics www.louiseperry.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
"So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth."
That's a quote from 'Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years', Elizabeth Wayland Barber's landmark contribution to archeology, recently re-published in the form of a 30th anniversary edition.
Wayland-Barber argues that...
In this bonus episode, Meghan Murphy and I discussed the online community of young men making every effort to improve their appearances.
Discussed in the episode:
- Clavicular in conversation with Michael Knowles
- Olly Murs photos
- Documentary on sperm donor, ‘The Man with 1000 Kids’
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The Medieval period is sometimes described as the ‘Age of Faith.’ This was a world in which the church dominated every area of life and it was almost impossible to think outside of Christianity.
It was succeeded, of course, by the ‘Age of Reason’, a period in which Enlightenment thinkers placed an extremely high premium on rational inquiry.
Which era are we living in now? Robert P. George suggests that we have entered an ‘Age of Feel...
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Nina Power about the scandal regarding Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd El Fattah and the degraded legitimacy of the British state.
Mentioned in the episode:
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Charles Murray is a political scientist best known for his work on intelligence, socioeconomics, and the American welfare state. In books including 'Losing Groun...
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rob Henderson about Jacob Savage's viral article in Compact on discrimination against white men in creative industries.
Discussed in the episode:
- 'The lost generation' - Compact Magazine
- 'The vanishing white male writer' - Compact Magazine
- 'The vanishing' - Tablet Magazine
- 'The Daily' episode on media trust
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We have seen an extraordinary change in attitudes towards gay and lesbian people over the last half century in the West. Within living memory, homosexuality was criminalis...
What Conservative America gets right about Britain
Description: In this bonus episode, I spoke with Ed West about why the American Right is so preoccupied with British decline.
Discussed in this episode:
- The declining lethality of violent assault
- Christopher Caldwell on Trump's warnings on Europe
- Curtis Yarvin on hobbits and elves
- British Muslim crime rate
- Leamington Spa case
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I know that there are many people listening to this podcast right now who truly and sincerely want to get married, but can't find the right person. They've done th...
In this bonus episode, I disagreed strongly with Meghan Murphy on the necessity of housework.
Discussed in the episode:
- ‘Women aren’t nags – we’re just fed up’
- ‘Thoughts on being raised by a single dad and the advice to “just do less”
- ‘The women quietly quitting their husbands’
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No one is under any illusions about how tired mothers are. And fathers, too. Particularly during the early years of sleep deprivation. We're also often overwhelmed by responsibility and financial stress. None of this is in doubt.
But does that mean that mothers are unhappy? It's a complicated question to answer. A lot of people assume – particularly, I suspect, people who don't have children themselves – that tiredness and...
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Nina Power about 'hybristophilia' – a fetish typically found in women that is characterized by sexual attraction to criminals. We discussed what the phenomenon reveals about female sexuality, the insights offered by erotic fiction intended for a female readership, and the tightrope that women have to walk when trying to attract sexual interest from men.
Discussed in the ep...
My guest today is Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and author of books including ‘iGen’, ‘Generation Me’, and ‘Generations.’ Her latest title is ‘10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World: How Parents Can Stop Smartphones, Social Media, and Gaming from Taking Over Their Children’s Lives.’
We spoke abou...
In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I spoke about sexual politics and education. Do men care about whether a potential wife has a degree? Is university the best place to find a spouse? And was ‘Princeton Mom’ right?
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In this episode I’m joined by Lyman Stone and Diana Fleischman for a debate on eugenics – specifically, Diana’s argument that most people support ‘negative eugenic’ policies to some degree, and that governments ought to go further by encouraging the use of sterilisation or long term contraception among, for instance, drug addicts.
Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director o...
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Ed West about the new data indicating that British citizens are emigrating in much larger numbers than anyone realised. We also spoke about how emigration has shaped the Anglosphere and the proposed reforms to the asylum system.
Discussed in the episode:
* ONS revised emigration estimates – https://www.ons...
My guest today is Melissa Kearney, Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and author of ‘The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind.’
We spoke about the experience of raising children in a low fertility society, why feminists should care about pronatalism, the cause of the massi...
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Diana Fleischman about the new Lily Allen album, why most people aren’t well suited to polyamory, why celebrities cheat more often than normal people, whether we should stigmatise polyamory, and the middle aged women taking testosterone to boost their libidos.
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My guest today is Joyce Benenson, Lecturer in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and the author of ‘Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes.’ We spoke about boys and men – why even very young boys are often obsessed with enemies, superheroes, weapons, and everything else to do with warfare, and how psychological sex d...
In this bonus episode, Nina Power and I discussed Alasdair MacIntyre’s work and the position of postliberalism in 2025. Is the West excessively individualistic, or actually excessively communitarian? Was the welfare state a terrible mistake? And did liberalism really fail?
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