Feminism is that force in politics which enables pornographers, abortionists, womanizers, pimps and human traffickers to have their way with women. They are granted political and social cover; even a cachet that increasingly welcomes these vile practices to casual exposure and creeping approval in the popular culture.
[pullquote]beaten to death versus rent money. This is empowerment?[/pullquote]Movies like Pretty Woman portray prostitution as some sort of independent consultancy, which like many careers can pose challenges and force decisions in order to resolve conflicts. Just another job. Nothing is different, everything is relative, and women like Julia Roberts’ hooker are at their best when weighing the odds of being strangled and beaten to death versus their need for rent money. This is empowerment?
I cannot imagine a more pathetically conflicted creature than a woman who feels that she is “empowered” to receive money for sex, unless it is the supposedly respectable women walking about with their clothing on and defending the practice. This sort of thing only makes sense to those whose worldview is that all sex is either rape or prostitution. They have decided to enthusiastically promote the lesser of two evils as if it were right and good. Misogyny is a spectrum disorder, and a lot of women have it.
It is an appalling spectacle reminiscent of the scene in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four where the pigs and the men look at each other across the table, and not only can we no longer tell the difference, but neither can they. Why bother oppressing your own people when you can get them to do it themselves?
Excerpt from an upcoming essay. –hbd 15apr2012
