You know who else is making the argument that it doesn't sound very feminist? The feminists. There's actually been a Feminist Civil War raging since about the mid-80s. It's the Anti-Pornography Feminists versus the Sex Positive-Feminists.
:hatsoff: to you. Not a lot of people realize that. I went to see Camille Paglia speak many years ago. And although I had come to believe that I was opposed to feminism (because all I had been exposed to were the radical, man hating, whining, irritating, constantly complaining FemiNazi types), I walked away as a great fan and admirer of this woman. But she's not a Gloria Steinem/Patricia Ireland/NOW hypocrite feminist. Without trying to put her into a box, I guess the best way to describe Camille is as a "libertarian feminist". She doesn't **** men. And she doesn't believe that the only way for women to make it in this world is for the government to take away from men and hand it to them. She's not angry at men for having penises and she didn't get one. A few years after I heard her speak, she attended a NOW conference and one topic she wanted to discuss was why the "sandalistas" were always whining about the plight of women, but the only women in power at NOW were primarily White (and Jewish) females. She asked about why women of color never seemed to be seen or heard. She had some other topics she wanted to discuss as well. But the good "womyn" of NOW shut Camille's mic off and refused to let her speak. What an open, tolerant group they showed themselves to be.
Sometime after that, the NOW gals got themselves a token Black president. But the joke I heard was that they found her cleaning rooms at the luxury hotel where they were staying and made her the president just for a photo session.
But anyway, Camille Paglia represents a brand of feminism that isn't about dragging someone else down to improve the plight of women. And Camille's brand of feminism (where sexuality is celebrated, not shunned) represents a major threat to the NOW/Gloria Steinem/Patricia Ireland brand. Reagan's boy, Ed Meese, Jerry Falwell/The Moral Majority, Pat Robertson and the Sandalistas of NOW all stood together and held hands, as Meese went buck wild on the pornography industry in America in the late 80's. W. Bush wasn't much better. And to be quite honest, any porn that offends the radical feminists in Obama's base has been attacked by Obama's boy, Holder. These are the people who claim that women must be made a special, protected class of citizen. These are the people who claim that pornography encourages men to **** women. So it must be ******. More of that war on women and misogyny stuff will happen otherwise. So... uh... does gay porn encourage gay guys to **** women? I'm
cornfused 'bout that, ma'am.
Say, isn't UK Feminista the whacko FemiNazi group that has been giving the producers of Game of Thrones a hard time lately? Somebody fact check me on that, but I think it is. Fuck them!
