Natasha Walter
An Amazon review I’ve just knocked up for Living Dolls, an ‘important’ new feminist work of trash that is getting a lot of exposure in female dominated media :
Feminism is the history of unattractive, aging women, trying to play catch up in their attempts at closing the free sexual market as new technology continues to widen it.
Thus the first wave of feminism began as men and women moved from the countryside into the cities, and men suddenly came into contact with more young females than previously they had in a lifetime. Young girls were no longer married off at the height of fertility but were sent to work in the new factories – in itself increasing the ‘availibility’ of young flesh to any tempted husband. Simultaneously, prostitutes flocked to the new metropolises to take advantage of the increasing spending powers of the working man. The first feminists called not for the vote, but for the raising of the age of consent and for restrictions against prostitutes. Feminism has always been primarily a sexual trade union for women past their peak fertility.
The second wave of feminism began immediately once the contraceptive pill became available, which instead of ‘liberating’ women, simply freed up the sexual market – something that the second wave and the rush into employment and education was a ‘necessary’ response to. In a single generation, 10,000 years of patriarchy was undone. Similarly, the internet and globalisation again threatened to leave ordinary women sexually irrelevant. In the space of 10 years, women have gone from having virtually zero representation in high office, to near dominating the political and social agendas of every Western democracy. In their wake, moral hysterias over ‘sex trafficking’ and ‘paedophilia’ have appeared, the likes of which the civilised west has not seen since the witch burnings of the late middle-ages.
Such is the setting for Living Dolls, one feminist’s irrationalist and subconcious realisation that feminism was never about ‘equal rights’ with men, but simply preserving the sexual and reproductive interests of unattractive women. Enjoy as fake intellectual Soma if you’re a similarly sexually threatened unattractive woman. The rest of us, genuine seekers after truth and justice, can try to read it as a historical document of the last desperate gasps of the sexual trade union.
Meanwhile, to anyone genuinely concerned about the welfare of children and the rights of young people, I would suggest you perhaps read something detailing the way that promiscuous and sexually aware young women are treated in Islamic countries, things that are clearly of no interest to western feminists.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844084841/ref=cm_cr_thx_view
