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I'm an editor at large at Time magazine and I have to admit this week that the person I'm interviewing, and this happens in many reporters careers, has actually had a material affect on my life, and in fact on many working women's lives. But despite that I'm going to try not to go too easy on her. Welcome Gloria Steinum. So, you have participated for May a documentary of your life. Why a documentary about your life, now? Are you dying? No, they might think so, though, but, am planning to stay here till a 100, at least. [ LAUGH ] What would you say to people who feel, today, that the fight for women's rights is all over, but shouting. I guess I would send them out for an eye exam, a hearing exam. [ LAUGH ] In other words, they're wrong. But I, but, [ LAUGH ] but I've, I realized that that idea is, is out there because it's a way of stopping, progress. So we hear, words like post- racist, post- feminist. When people I think would not say post democracy, I think people would concede at a minimum that we haven't reached democracy yet and we certainly haven't reached equality of women of all races or racial equality. In one of your earliest journalistic coos' you went undercover at the Playboy Barney Club to show. What a dreary and dead- end and horrible job it was. In the documentary, you express some regret about that. Would you like to explain why? Well, at the time, it was a gigantic career error, [ LAUGH ] because I had just narrowly begun to get serious writing assignments. And after I did that. Suddenly, I could, I, I literally lost an assignment, to write about the US information agency. But once feminism began to dawn on me, I realized, wait a minute, you know, I had more in common with the women who were working there than I did with the editors who sent me there. I'm Australian, and my country's most famous feminist let me continue in Germaine Greer, is like you, very good looking, and I wonder how much you think that helps, when you are standing up for women's rights. First of all, I have to tell you honestly. You don't think Germaine Greer is good looking. No, no, no, wait a minute [ LAUGH ], that I was, then when I became identified as a feminist, I was already close to 40. So it was clear to me that before and after I was a feminist I had a completely different measure of how [ LAUGH ] I looked. Before I was sort of, a pretty girl you know, attractive, afterwards I was beautiful suddenly and so it was more a comment on what people thought feminists looked like. Than it was, on how, I actually looked. The hard part for me is that sometimes those have been used to say that well she didn't work. She just got this because she looks good. But given that, beauty has a strange persuasive power. And that people advertise success is beauty when Jocks proposed with a product to sell something. Has it ever occured to your something trojahn horsey about it. Well, I would love to be a trojahn horse for revolution, hmm good idea. Hahaha [ LAUGH ]. No fine, i just feel that we just feel free to look however we want to look. We ought to be free to wear whatever we want and, and, be safe in the street. But if, if my being a pretty girl, listen, I'm 77 now I thought this would be over by now but anyways [ LAUGH ] [ LAUGH ] You know, was helpful, fine. You know, then it disproved a myth. So this is you. No botox nothing. I hear botox hurts. I though about getting a tattoo [ LAUGH ] A tattoo would be on the neck No I was going to get a tramp stamp on my 70th birthday. Oh, a tram stamp. [ LAUGH ] What is your view of the Dominique Strauss- Kahn situation? I'm very grateful to the NYPD that plucked him off the plane. [ LAUGH ] I'm very grateful to the maid who, you know, knew she had rights, and brought an accusation. It's a great step forward and one can see it's impact say, in France, you know, on the woman who also suffered an attempted rape by him and is now bringing a, a lawsuit. How do you feel about the direction feminism has taken with pessimism and third wave feminism. Are you encouraged by what you see? Yes. No, I'm very encouraged because I see the, the humor and the hopefulness and the, they just have much better detectors that we did. [ LAUGH ] They just don't take the same I am out of bias and it is great to see. 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