Posted on 10/23/2006 12:34:03 PM PDT by klossg
Feminism has collided with "an unanticipated opponent: the inner woman." The book centers on the most stubborn aspects of the inner woman, the impulses and irrational passions that rise up and swamp us despite our efforts to stick to the designated feminist path.
Kipnis wrestles with Dworkin's writings. "Dworkin didn't read the culture wrong: it's true that all the idioms for penetration: 'getting f__ked', 'screwed over' are about humiliation and exploitation. Which does make it hard to see how anyone can avoid a certain duality about it, even when it's pleasurable
Kipnis reads a passage from Pearson's "I Don't Know How She Does It," in which the heroine, an account executive, cleans the kitchen at 2AM after returning from a business trip. Kipnis wonders why many women pursue a standard of cleanliness that no one else considers essential. "How is it that women have managed to over throw the shackles of chastity, more easily than bondage to the vacuum cleaner?" She suspects that at the root of this preoccupation lies the buried, primitive association of women's bodies and menstruation, with dirt. "If women didn't have vaginas," Kipnis asks, "would we take fewer bubble baths and simply not do more than 50% of the housework?"
Kipnis defines femininity as "a way of securing resources and positioning women as advantageously as possible on an uneven playing field, given the historical inequalities and anatomical disparities of the female condition" -- seeks to ameliorate all these disadvantages by "doing what it took to form alliances with men." But that means that femininity "hinges on sustaining an underlying sense of female inadequacy," which puts it in opposition to the goals of feminism. No wonder we feel a little uneasy when the possessor of a boob job proclaims, "I did it for myself."
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When will feminism stand beside and try to build up marriage? Never? I thought so. It should at least try to build up the individual woman, not turn her in a knotted mess. Or has that been the whole point all along. One woman gets tied up in knots and wants to share her misery. Destructive? Is she paid by men to do this? Is the idea to make a woman feel inadequet in her own skin?
Quite possibly the most idiotic sentence I've ever read.
The problem with Feminists is that they objectify women and see them only as body parts. Body parts they don't like.
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Excellent analysis!
LOL! I think you have to spend a lot of years in college to get this dumb.
Women have vastly more sensitive noses than men, and more detail-oriented vision. I think we clean more because we *notice* that things are messy, dirty, and smelly!
I hate to say it, but if that small a percent of women have orgasms, then from my understanding, they aren't letting go, trusting and loving enough to have one with their partner (assuming he is at all caring and helpful in the encounter).
Cheapening sex by having it with all sorts of people doesn't help women. How can you let yourself fully go to experience the fullness of your love for your man (to have the climax/orgasm) if you don't know if he loves you, will be with you long, or has had more fun with other women than you?
Feminism has helped destroy most aspects of women's ability to have the orgasms they now lament not being able to achieve.
Hey! I "notice" that things are dirty, messy, and smelly. I just have a better denial mechanism than most women.
I don't do 50% of the housework.....
never have.....
Just leave that 50% alone and it never goes away.....
see, no brainer.
Speak for yourself.....
Some of us,
erm.....
Don't ah....see dirt the same way (much less smell, but that's another story).
we just can....
OK, so I can plant petunias in the living room.
Good post.
Okay, so much for generalizations!
However, the sense perception differences (in general, of course) are verified.
I agree with feminists every thing has to do with their vaginas. Kinda like they accuse men of thinking with their little head. Feminists think with their major hole. They just have a horrible time deciding what to fill it with or to fill it at all.
Ultimately with both sets it's an unwinnable situation.TO heck with 'em both.
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