Evidently, some self-described feminists have no regrets about the hook-up culture, and are stressed out about the “back-lash” of a “new wave of anti-orgasmic sexual conservatism.” S.T. Karnick dissects their pity party. Oh wait. He didn’t call it that. I called it that. In any case, here is Karnick’s bottom line:
I sympathize with Grose’s dismay at the world not being exactly as she wishes it to be, but I find her article (and others like it) charmingly transparent in their elitist hunger for power: women should be free to do whatever they want, provided that they want what feminists such as Grose want them to want.
What does this mean for the future of feminism? Who knows? But the grotesque crassness of the past decade may well have brought about at least one very good consequence: the tawdry reality behind the ideals of orgasm-obsessed feminists such as Grose has been laid bare for all to see and judge for themselves. Now that’s liberation.
Read it all here. I love it, I must say.