Virulent New Strain of Stupid Seems to Have No Cure

EvilPundit · 2015-10-23T07:47:05+00:00

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KrisK_lvin · 2015-10-23T08:03:49+00:00

Stupid is so ubiquitous these days that to really make one form of dumb stand out from another takes supreme effort.

So gold medallist Rebecca Traister’s The Game Is Rigged: Why sex that’s consensual can still be bad. And why we’re not talking about it. may have set a new standard …

We tend to talk about consent “as an individual process,” [former Havard student Reina Gattuso] wrote, “not asking ‘What kinds of power are operating in this situation?’ but only ‘Did you or did you not say yes?’

I think I see where this is going …

contemporary feminism’s shortcomings may lie in not its overradicalization but rather its underradicalization

Ummm.

It continues - my emphases below:

The result is a neatly halved sexual universe, in which there is either assault or there is sex positivity. Which means a vast expanse of bad sex — joyless, exploitative encounters that reflect a persistently sexist culture and can be hard to acknowledge without sounding prudish [ …]

Alexandra Brodsky, a Yale law student and founder of anti-rape organization Know Your IX, tells me that she has heard from women who feel that “not having a super-exciting, super-positive sex life is in some ways a political failure.”

Except that young women don’t always enjoy sex — and not because of any innately feminine psychological or physical condition. The hetero (and non-hetero, but, let’s face it, mostly hetero) sex on offer to young women is not of very high quality …

Right. Got it. If and when there is consent, it is the man’s and only the man’s responsibility if the sex itself does not meet with expectations.

No pressure there then.

[Sex is] rigged in ways that go well beyond consent. Students I spoke to talked about “male sexual entitlement,” the expectation that male sexual needs take priority, with men presumed to take sex and women presumed to give it to them. They spoke of how men set the terms, host the parties, provide the alcohol, exert the influence.

There’s more:

[Maya Dusenbery, editorial director at Feministing], who is now 29, speaks of her “great feminist shame”: After a decade of sexual activity, she very often still doesn’t get off. “In one way that feels so superficial, but then, if I believe sexual pleasure is important, that’s terrible! Come on, Maya! Communicate!” She winds up feeling bad for not having done the work of telling her partners how to make her feel good.

You see. It’s all your fault.

Pleasure! Women want pleasure, or at least an equal shot at it.

Oh dear God … "the orgasm gap"

One thing that’s clear is that feminists need to raise the bar for women’s sex lives way, way higher.

2015-10-23T12:22:29+00:00

https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/i-have-always-depended-on-the-sexual-kindness-of-strangers/

Tracy “Hot Farts” Moore at Jezebel asks How Can We Make Casual Sex Better For Women? (language warning)

Anyone who has embarked on a first-time hookup with a man knows the following: it can be terrible, just OK, or great, but it’s highly unlikely you will get off. Is this a fixed truth of casual sex, or is there something we can do to change it?

Moore and other feminists are coveting something they can’t get. Their first problem is a lack of ownership. This is the tragedy of the slutty commons. Even worse, the kind of men Moore and others want to hook up with are the least likely to care about her satisfaction; their lack of caring is precisely what she finds so attractive.

Futility aside, Moore (like all feminists) puts her faith in the patriarchy to solve all of her problems:

Like everything that involves giving women pleasure or true equality—the wage gap, the domestic labor gap—we need men to pick up the slack.

If you take a step back, feminism is about nagging men to do what feminists want them to do. While it won’t work in this specific application, their faith in men’s ever enduring goodwill is generally speaking quite well placed. Feminism is the assertion that men are evil and naturally want to harm women, followed by pleas to men solve all of women’s problems. Feminism has been so successful not because men by their nature want to harm women, but because appeals to men for assistance can be so reliably depended upon.

TheDude41 · 2015-10-23T08:34:46+00:00

Damseling whinery.

I pity the mate who ends up with her.

Title	Virulent New Strain of Stupid Seems to Have No Cure
Author	KrisK_lvin
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Date	October 23, 2015 7:40 AM UTC (10 years ago)
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