Modern Society Is Failing Men & Women - Mary Harrington - #444

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Mary Harrington. She's a writer and contributing editor at UnHerd. It's hard to say that either men or women have a firm place to stand right now. The age-old wisdom, which both groups traditionally relied on, is out of the window, and we're TikTok dancing our way through an existential apocalypse, where girl bosses and men going their own way battle it out for nihilistic supremacy. I wanted Mary to help me conduct a postmortem. Expect to learn why the porn you start out watching is going to lead you down a dark rabbit hole, how the introduction of the pill led to fewer weddings and more awkward situations for women, why men need their own spaces back, what Mary thinks about the pornification of everything, why young girls are developing Tourette's from TikTok, and much more. Mary's writing is some of the best stuff that I've found on the internet over the last couple of months, so you should go and check that out if you enjoy what you're here today. Also, you should go and get the Modern Wisdom reading list, which is free, and there is 100 books that you need to read before you die. It's my favorite books from the last few years. You can get it right now by going to chriswillx.com. slash books. It will sign you up to my Three Minute Monday newsletter as well. That's chriswillx.com/books. In other news, this episode is brought to you by The Cold Plunge, a revolutionary cold plunge that uses powerful cooling, filtration and sanitation to give you cold, clean water whenever you want it, making it far superior to an ice bath or a chest freezer. I am a huge fan of cold therapy. I try and do it as much as I can. And the difference between doing it in a shower or doing it in a proper plunge tub is pretty profound. 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