First published at 17:34 UTC on July 2nd, 2022.
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Feminism leaves the woman free to consume, to enjoy a no-strings life, with no mutual obligation. It is transactional, meaning it seeks to replace real-life relationships with businesslike consumer exchanges. In the business of feminism the customer is always right, whatever she chooses to buy.
“Consumer feminism” is the term applied to the conspicuous consumption of the liberated woman. It celebrates the spending power of the woman unchained from womanhood, replacing her traditional roles and bonds with consumer goods, services, pampering, surgery, wine boxes, proxy children in pets. It has collided with the obscenities of the internet age to valorise the display of women for financial gain as another aspect of liberation, so that squatting in your underwear on OnlyFans is owning the men, You Go Girl!
The broader issue of the sex industry is another paradox of feminist theory which seems baffling to common sense. How on earth is it liberating to sell your body to men for money? As any sane person knows, pornography is degrading and ultimately evil, reducing the human form to a machine displayed for momentary gratification. It commodifies an impulse proper to the production of life, subtracts this factor, replacing with raw fetish the basic miracle of existence. The sex industry and its pervasive influence has barbarised women and men alike, promoting the instant objectification of everyone into a hypersexualised commodity. We are reminded by the Marquis de Sade that repeated cheap stimulation leads to a jaded appetite, fuelling further excesses in debauchery. As we are well aware by now, they are coming for the children next.
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