Have We Really Come a Long Way?
Elizabeth Wurtzel spills about how feminism has taken on a new meaning.
Has today’s feminist movement really taken on a twisted connotation? There’s a stimulating and valid rant in The Los Angeles Times about how the original strengths and rights that women are striving to rightly claim have been blurred into obscurity.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation states, “Because Silda Wall Spitzer is accomplished and beautiful, the whole scene [Spitzer scandal] serves as a grim reminder that even amazing women become sexually disposable after a certain age.”
She goes on to discuss how many of our most powerful companies have female CEOs, yet they still make 80 cents to a man’s dollar.
“It seems that the only industries in which women earn more than their male counterparts are pornography and prostitution,” she says.
“…Feminism, which was meant to be fun, has lately started to seem so sour. Men, particularly married men, often dislike Hillary Clinton, and I suspect that it's because she represents the unsexy wing of the women's movement.”
Then again, Wurtzel also sees feminism as “owning your own orgasm” and that’s pretty sexy. Is there a middle ground, or will we continue to wade between what we’ll accept and what we deserve?
Discussion
Read that article in the times. Women don't seem to get it. Although they should feel more free to get in touch with their sexuality, the direct consequence is that men feel less apt to stay in a relationship with a women when sex is so freely excessible. I think the economic rule of incentives explains in best, women as a whole are willing to have sex without a commitment (for a while), and divorce (especially in Cali) tends to favor the women. So men naturally weigh the potential consequences and decide that marriage/commitment are not worth it. Men are attracted to youthful women, where as women are attracted to a established, mature men, reguardless of age. If men can continue to get sex from willing, young, liberated women, why get tied down with a women who wants marriage and responsibility? Women are funny, they want to have fun and mess around in their twenties, but as they approach the age when they want to settle down, they forget that women years younger are constantly filling the void that they left behind. Feminism never took the into account the shelf life our culture has placed on women and their looks, which sadly, ends rather quickly.
