EP 77 Louise O'Neill & Panti Bliss at the Safe Summit
The Women's Podcast - A podcast by The Irish Times - Thursdays
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More from the Safe Ireland summit on domestic violence held in Dublin before Christmas. Louise O'Neill talks about why, by the age of 18, she had come to accept that being groped and touched was just the price you had to pay for moving through the world in a female body. And Rory O'Neill aka Panti Bliss explores the cultural 'rules' laid down to men and women. 'Our society decided women would be the peacocks. We gave them the tools of peacockery and insisted that they use them. At the same time our culture said to men: you are not allowed to use any of those tools. I say feck that. It's not fair on women or men'