Siri Hustvedt – Women. And Misogyny (English Original Version)

How to be taken seriously as an intellectual woman - in arts or
politics? „Wrinkles help, age helps“ - Siri Hustvedt is sure about
that. Because women are associated with the body and men with
intellect. Hustvedt and Marinic are laughing a lot in this episode,
although the topic is grave: They talk about misogyny and how it
limits the freedom of women. „Misogyny is punishment, hatred and it
is particularly directed at women who are ambitious“, Hustvedt says
and she attributes Hillary Clintons defeat against Donald Trump in
2016 to misogyny. All women are supposed to be caring and
obsequious, because Western culture has fixated on the maternal
role, Hustvedt states: „And when that is not performed to the
satisfaction of those who believe that this is her natural role,
punishment ensues.“ A current example for misogyny against
ambitious women are the ongoing attacks against the green candidate
for chancellor Annalena Baerbock, claims Jagoda Marinic. The
transcript of the episode:
https://download.hr2.de/pdf-fdl-siri-hustvedt-englisch-100.pdf
FREIHEIT DELUXE mit Jagoda Marinic ist eine Produktion des
Hessischen Rundfunks und des Börsenvereins des deutschen
Buchhandels. Der Podcast wurde gefördert im Rahmen von "Neustart
Kultur" der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
durch den Deutschen Literaturfonds e.V.