Apropos of my post on corset-adorned book covers, here’s Twisty Faster on the insanity that is “sexy feminism”:

“It’s a too-too-tool of the patriarkay. It’s an expedient justification, a way to rebrand what everybody does when they’re in their twenties, which is to drink too much and screw a lot, as a cool 21st-century-activist political activity.

This would just be kind of funny, you know, youthful hi-jinx and whatnot, except that, since it is entirely devoid of philosophic value, sexy feminism has sort of caught on. It’s had the untoward effect of diluting the message of actual feminism. And the even more untoward effect of vilifying radical feminism. And the even more untoward effect of strengthening patriarchal oppression.

What do I mean by ’sexy feminism’? Suicide Girls. Bust magazine. BDSM. The ‘position’ that women should be free to ‘choose’ femininity if that’s what bangs their box. The idea that embracing sexploitation is ‘empowering.’ The notion that women ‘can do what we want despite patriarchy.’”

<<Applause>>