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I saw a purple Chevy today hiked up on its axles. On the mudflaps were the silhouettes of a naked male in silver. This is a sad and ironic example of a woman who truly has given herself over to a masculine problem with sexual lust in a masculine way. Whether she realizes it or not, her message is saying, "I have no femininity, I lust for men just like men tend to lust for women. To me, this is a very low position for something so glorious as a--woman... To be so degraded in one's sexuality that she would adopt the very form that degrades her very sex... Some man out there in her life, ought to be shot in the thigh..
But then, maybe what looked like a woman in the cab, maybe was a man.
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It’s amazing how many women actually say explicitly that they have no femininity and that gender is illusionary, thus opening themselves up to the very abuse of which porn is only one example.
In her book Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin asserted that, “The discovery is, of course, that ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are fictions, caricatures, cultural constructs . . . demeaning to the female, dead-ended for male and female both.”
Family therapist Olga Silverstein expressed similar sentiments when she urged “the end of the gender split” since “until we are willing to question the very idea of a male sex role…we will be denying both men and women their full humanity.”
In his book , The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir was even more blunt: “Women are made, they are not born.” Since women have been “made” by society, the corollary to becoming more enlightened is that we should strive to unmake the female. This is exactly what the influential psychologist Sandra Bem has suggested. “When androgyny had been absorbed by the culture”, wrote Melanie Phillips, paraphrasing Bem’s views, “concepts of masculinity and femininity would cease to have distinct content and distinctions would ‘blur into invisibility’” (The Sex-Change Society).
Susan Moller Okin is equally wistful when contemplating a future without gender. “. . . [A] just future would be one without gender. In its social structures and practices, one’s sex would have no more relevance than one’s eye color or the length of one’s toes.”
If the above statements are to be taken seriously, then Nietzsche was wrong when he posited the Übermensch as the pinnacle of the evolutionary process; rather, true utopia will be found in neither the superman nor the superwoman, but the liberated unisex being that will emerge out of the liquidation of gender. And when that happens, we can all drive purple Chevy today hiked up on its axles with the silhouettes of a naked male in silver to celebrate the liquidation of femininity.
Oh, and one more point. I also have quotations from people who deny the gender polarity saying that we should go soft on crimes like rape. There is a freightening consistency at work there if you ask me.
Are we still on for lunch tomorrow?
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