Meghan Murphy on Third-Wave Feminism, Cancel Culture, and the Tweet That Got Her Banned

Meghan Murphy is a Canadian writer and founder of Feminist Current. In this episode, she talks about how she got into feminism, why she disagreed with third-wave feminism’s embrace of pornography and prostitution, and how women’s studies became gender studies. Meghan was one of the first feminists in Canada to publicly question gender identity ideology, which got her pushed out of a feminist podcast collective in 2011. She started Feminist Current in 2012.Murphy was permanently banned from Twitter in 2018 for tweets including “men aren’t women” and for referring to Jessica Yaniv as “him.” She sued Twitter and lost in California. Joe Rogan covered her case and had her on his show; she was reinstated in 2022 after the Musk acquisition. She left Vancouver for Mexico in 2021. The conversation also touches on Helen Andrews’ essay about the feminization of the workplace and why the left has become so illiberal.

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