The Party Line on why misogyny is big business ft. Louise O'Shea

Episode 29 - The Party Line on why misogyny is big businessTo celebrate International Working Women’s Day, the crew start by talking about why cupcakes with pink icing - while nice - are not sufficient to end millennia of systematic sexism (yes, it’s true). We then look at how pop culture, corporate media, advertising and beauty industries all profit at the expense of women’s self-worth and happiness, all while promoting terrible stereotypes to the public. Red Flag editor Louise O’shea is our special guest for this ep, and she takes us through a marxist explanation of the source of all this oppression, namely the nuclear family and the sexist hyperexploitation of women at work. We then take a look at the alienation and despair driving the manosphere, and how opportunist capitalist scum like Andrew Tate and the social media corporations that drive his influence, manipulate the minds of young men and push misogynist attitudes. Finally, we talk about how sexism and misogyny can be resisted, rejecting liberal feminism in favour of revolutionary overthrow of the whole system, and discussing why the working class and trade unions are essential forces in combatting sexism.Readings:The everyday horror of modern sexism | Red FlagMarxism and women’s liberation - Louise O’SheaUnpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research showsThe Times They Aren't A-Changin (enough) - Eliza Littleton and Greg Jericho   Huge thanks to our tireless editors Charlie Wardrop and Persephone Waxman, and our content editor Charlotte Tavan.While we will always release our content for free, please support us on patreon if you can.*****************This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne). We hope to bring a radical perspective to a podcast landscape dominated by insipid liberalism (looking at you, The Daily). The pod will come out weekly, and aims to breakdown news and current events from a socialist point of view. While a lot of what’s going on in the world is fairly bleak, The Party Line will try and highlight voices of resistance and struggle.If you like what you hear, please rate, subscribe and share with your friends, colleagues and comrades. If you are in a position to support us financially then sign up at patreon.com/thepartyline. If you find yourself agreeing with us more often than not, please join your local branch of the Socialist Party at socialists.org.au. We need your help to build a fighting socialist movement that can take on both the far right and its centrist enablers.(The views and opinions expressed in our show are ours and ours alone, and do not reflect on the Socialist Party or Victorian Socialists.) This pod was produced on stolen land and we stand in solidarity with our Indigenous comrades in their ongoing fight against racism and capitalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.