Russell Brand isn't the problem- Society is

Mission Undercover · Nov 8, 2026 · 8m

Content note: This episode discusses violence against women and girls, misogyny, sexual abuse, victim-blaming, online harms and institutional failures.In this episode, I discuss the public debate surrounding Russell Brand’s case as a starting point for a wider conversation about violence against women and girls. My focus is not simply on individual cases, but on the cultural and institutional conditions that allow misogyny and harmful attitudes to persist.I argue that government intervention alone cannot address the full scale of the problem. We also need to examine how misogyny is shaped by…