It has been noted by many commentators over they years that an oxymoronic singular objective of a movement dubbed “feminist” is to achieve some false notion of parity by behaving like men.
Sure, good men have certain admirable qualities that any person, regardless of gender, would do well to emulate. In the classic musical My Fair Lady, Professor Higgins comically extols these qualities while lamenting their apparent absence in women singing…
Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair.
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can’t a woman be like that?
Alas and alack, these are not the qualities that the feminist movement extols in its futile search for equality. The feminist movement promotes an ideal much different than Henry Higgins. Feminists promote behavior in women that is most despicable in men. Greed. Avarice. Selfishness. And lust. To be equal to men, you must be just like the worst of them.
Recently, I came across an article that exemplifies this notion taken to the extreme. Before I link to this article, I must warn you that its content is extremely vulgar and sexually graphic. I will do my best to summarize and sanitize here so that readers do not need to subject themselves to understand my points. But if you have the stomach, you can find it here.
Tracy Clark-Flory is a sex and relationship staff writer at Salon. That sentence is the scariest notion in the world.
In a recent article, Ms. Clark-Flory happily regales her readers with a tale that would make her a scoundrel among men, but in reality it probably makes her the saddest woman on the internet.
She begins by telling us that she just saw her favorite male porn star enter the bar and she immediately expresses the desire to sleep with him….
April 23, 2012 at 5:29 pm
You're right. I was surprised by how right you were, actually.
After reading it, I wasn't offended. I wasn't provoked or empowered.
I was sad.
And I don't understand her point in writing the article. At all.
Eeek.
April 23, 2012 at 5:39 pm
That is not feminist theory – she supports something else.
April 23, 2012 at 5:44 pm
This is either a phony story, or she's the most foolish young woman on the planet.
April 24, 2012 at 9:41 am
Do you know of any guys who'd think sleeping with a porn star would be markedly different from sleeping with a prostitute? Because I don't; even the guys I know who don't disapprove of porn have no desire, even in the abstract, to sleep with the actresses involved.
Seriously, if you're over six, you're expected to know that actors are not the characters they portray—yes, even in porn. She's not just imitating men, she's imitating stupid stoner frat-boys.
April 25, 2012 at 12:51 pm
What is really instructive about the post is the boredom that she exhibits. She actually is bored with meaningless sex and even though she was here fulfilling some 'dream', nevertheless all she could think of was how 'ordinary' it was.
In the face of the beauty of faithful love in marriage all she can think about is her own fantasy, and yet how benal and dull it was for her. Acedia is one way we could see her sin, rather than merely lust. She is trying to 'feel' with loveless sex, but ultimately is nothing, hardly even sex. She does seem to hint that loving sex is better, at the end of her post, because it isn't performance or fantasy. It isn't boring.
She is a sad case but typical of our age. Immorality in the sexual sphere isn't the problem, it is a lack of any sublime, or transendent vision, or willful blindness to the same.