Twisty explains it! Scathing review of hideous "marriage manual".
It has always been incumbent on the wife-mother to engage in a perpetual process of “improving” her marriage and family life. This process requires her to embrace bullshit ideologies and buy crap in the service of male culture. It did so in the 50s and it does today. The only difference is that the 21st century housewife is additionally obliged to emulate pornographic ideals and feel empowered by her unpaid job as babysitter/housekeeper/whore. She’s June Cleaver with a Brazilian wax.
Awesome.
I am very happy with the term "megatheocorporatocratic wife-mother" which belongs right up there with "prison industrial complex" in the pantheon of cool terminology.
The Great Blowjob Wars from last year continue and have reached new heights of analysis! Yes! Someone else sees the connections and calls it right out. Feminist blogs have sustained me and inspired me so much for the last few years. I'm just having a moment of appreciation here.... nothing to see... move right along...
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That's depressing, because it's so retrograde from the mother of all marriage manuals, Marie Stopes's Married Love (1918), which was all about women's desire being central, and the dreadfulness of assumptions that they should always be sexually available to their husbands whether they felt like it or not. And urging men to be a) more restrained about frequency b) more attentive to their wives' needs when marital sex did take place.
Because of the language she used, and okay, the v heteronormative/maternalistic framework of her writings, the absolute centrality of feminism in Stopes's work has often been overlooked. Though one could also argue that she was touchingly optimistic about the male capacity to change; one could also argue that the authors of work cited are deeply pessimistic about men, and in a sense depicting them in far more hostile terms.
Posted by: oursin | February 20, 2007 at 05:13 AM
I dunno. I can't get too twisted up about twisty's blog entries. She wrote "...no woman ... has ever actually enjoyed [giving a blowjob]." This is simply a bullshit claim, and a prime example of the lowest form of sexism. This is outrageous. By asserting this truth over all women, she proves, at least to me, that her opinions are highly suspect.
Posted by: RJ Mical | February 21, 2007 at 06:55 PM