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'If you want to find true happiness, just fake it' (The New New Feminism)
The Observer ^ | September 3, 2006 | Amelia Hill

Posted on 09/03/2006 7:49:20 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL

'If you want to find true happiness, just fake it'

In her latest book, the feminist icon Fay Weldon has caused a sensation by turning the beliefs of the sisterhood upside down. By Amelia Hill Amelia Hill Sunday September 3, 2006

Observer Telling women not to expect orgasms but to fake them, and to praise their partner lavishly afterwards, is not advice normally associated with a woman who has been in the vanguard of feminism for four decades.

Nevertheless, Fay Weldon gives short shrift to the views for which feminists have fought so bitterly over the years. In her latest book, she not only warns high-flying women that they should expect to end up single, she also suggests that sexual pleasure may be incompatible with high-powered careers and that women should simply accept they are less capable of being happy than men.

'Eighty per cent of women only sometimes - or never - experience orgasm. Facts are facts and there we are. Deal with it,' she writes in What Makes Women Happy?, to be published this month by Fourth Estate.

According to Weldon, sensible members of the sisterhood should, therefore, follow the example so graphically set by the actor Meg Ryan in the 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally, and fake orgasms whenever necessary.

'If you are happy and generous-minded, you will fake it and then leap out of bed and pour him champagne, telling him, "You are so clever" or however you express enthusiasm,' she says. 'Faking is kind to male partners ... Otherwise they too may become anxious and so less able to perform. Do yourself and him a favour, sister: fake it.'

(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: fake; feminism; happiness; orgasm; sexes; women
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I think I like this form of feminism. It would be such a pleasure to have a woman finally praise me for my selfishness in bed! /s for those who take FR too seriously.
1 posted on 09/03/2006 7:49:21 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

ROTFL - You're so clever :~D


2 posted on 09/03/2006 7:52:10 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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Quite clever like Bill Clinton and possibly the next John Wayne Bobbitt if a woman I am with knows I posted this......GASP!


3 posted on 09/03/2006 7:54:04 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

"Did you enjoy Orgasm Day, Amy?"

"I pretended to."

- Amy Poehler on SNL (more or less, from memory)


4 posted on 09/03/2006 7:58:00 PM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas (More of the same, only with more zeros at the end.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

I don't know where she gets her statistics about 80% of all women only sometimes having orgasms, but I've seen studies showing that both sexes get more satisfaction in marriage than out of it. And marriage, of course, is the institution feminists have tried so hard to destroy for the past forty years. So no wonder those feminazis aren't getting off successfully and have to give up on sex.

Frankly, there is no career in the world that can compensate for the joy of cuddling up in the arms of a man who loves you, both of you exhausted, triumphant, and thoroughly happy, maybe laughing a little at nothing because you're so happy.


5 posted on 09/03/2006 7:58:40 PM PDT by Fairview
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The funny thing is that I fake too. She never can tell.


6 posted on 09/03/2006 7:58:53 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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I wonder if Fay is married? If she is, this book must be a shock to her husband! If she is single than apparently she hasn't been faking it too well. LOL!


7 posted on 09/03/2006 7:59:27 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

What about lesbians?


8 posted on 09/03/2006 8:01:39 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Fairview
Frankly, there is no career in the world that can compensate for the joy of cuddling up in the arms of a man who loves you, both of you exhausted, triumphant, and thoroughly happy, maybe laughing a little at nothing because you're so happy.

No disrespect intended but I sincerely hope you are a woman.
9 posted on 09/03/2006 8:02:02 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Does she fake it with herself?


10 posted on 09/03/2006 8:03:25 PM PDT by stm (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
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To: Last Dakotan

Its fake to begin with...


11 posted on 09/03/2006 8:04:48 PM PDT by liberty or death
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I wonder if Fay is married?

Divorced and remarried, with four children.

12 posted on 09/03/2006 8:09:38 PM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas (More of the same, only with more zeros at the end.)
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To: Fairview

I hope you are a women! =) lol


13 posted on 09/03/2006 8:10:54 PM PDT by KoRn
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Tell a man you love him and he's your world! It took feminazis 40 years to discover human nature.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

14 posted on 09/03/2006 8:11:06 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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This is one stupid woman. Obviously frigid.

Ladies: If you arent having orgasms first try letting your partner know what it is you would like to do that would bring them on. Most men wil be more than happy to do requests. After he tries it your way and you still are having trouble, seek medical help. If that dosnt work try a new partner.

Orgasms are the meat in the sex stew, If you arent getting them dont just go away mad, try something new.

Most women are capable of multiple orgasms unlike men if sex isnt good you arent doing it right.

Now I am no Dr. Ruth, but I have been around and I can tell you :faking it just dont get the job done.


15 posted on 09/03/2006 8:11:10 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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**The funny thing is that I fake too. She never can tell.**

Then she must be the most stupid woman alive or else when she cleans herself she is just " Dusting".



16 posted on 09/03/2006 8:12:59 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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Frankly, there is no career in the world that can compensate for the joy of cuddling up in the arms of a man who loves you, both of you exhausted, triumphant, and thoroughly happy, maybe laughing a little at nothing because you're so happy.

You can't do this when you're NOT married? Hmm.

17 posted on 09/03/2006 8:14:58 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

This sounds like feminsts are terrified that women may actually have sexual satisfaction with a man.

Happines for women is bad news for feminists.


18 posted on 09/03/2006 8:17:43 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: goldstategop
Tell a man you love him and he's your world! It took feminazis 40 years to discover human nature.

If at first you don't succeed ... try the tried and true method!     LOL!

SoS

19 posted on 09/03/2006 8:24:02 PM PDT by Song of the South ( = Zip-a-dee-doo-dah =)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

I'll BET Hillary fakes it .


20 posted on 09/03/2006 8:25:05 PM PDT by lionheart 247365 (( I.S.L.A.M. stands for - Islams Spiritual Leaders Advocate Murder .. .. .. ))
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