What Germaine Greer thinks about behavioural science

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Writer and academic, born in 1939, whose The Female Eunuch (1970) argued that the consumerist nuclear family represses women and became a founding text of second-wave feminism.

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   Our readingEver harsher rape sentences make juries less willing to convict

   Their wordsOne of the reasons for that is the extremity of the sentences. We’ve had them raised and raised and raised in the misbelief that women, more women, will complain and more juries will convict. The effect is the opposite.

   ↗Transcript: Germaine Greer on the #MeToo movement (Al Jazeera, Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan, Oxford Union)aljazeera.com 5th of 6 in this piece