‘It is no longer about the money,’ she wrote. 'Instead, very broadly, it is about how society continues to exercise control over female sexuality by chaining it tightly to female morality.
‘It is about the fact that we have not left patriarchy in the past (we all know male morality is not judged by the same standard), and that a woman still cannot chose to do with her body what she pleases without eliciting condemnation and hate from those (or some of those) around her.’
There’s nothing in the second article that discusses “The Patriarchy” in any way. Instead, it’s a sneering article about a damaged young woman who cuts herself and does porn, even though it embarrasses her parents, especially her recently-returned-from-duty-soldier-father, thus neatly illustrating the ways in which women receive condemnation for exercising their own sexual choices.
Gosh, it’s almost like the Daily Mail is just running these anti-feminist articles to piss people off, but I guess that’s giving them credit for being more clever than they really are.
There are feminists who feel that way, yes. The general idea is that they should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies and the idea is that women should be allowed to prostitute themselves if they choose to do so and are treated well. I tend to think it’s junk, mostly because I don’t think that idealized situation happens very often in the real world.
Yeah, though that’s nowhere near a universal attitude. It’s most strongly associated with third wave feminism, or “choice feminism”. There’s quite a bit of (well-deserved, IMO) criticism about choice feminism, particularly regarding its circular reasoning (I am a feminist, therefore the choices I make are feminist) and how it ignores the larger societal implications of these choices (both historical precedent and current day). Yeah, sure, IF a woman truly chooses to prostitute herself (and there are some) and is not exploited … It still egregiously ignores the fact that the vast, VAST majority of sex workers are NOT there by choice, are exploited/abused and essentially trapped. Pretending that “choice prostitution” is widespread is disgustingly self-absorbed and actively contributes to the suffering/harm/oppression of the vast majority of sex workers. Your choices are not made in a vacuum and your choices affect other people (directly and indirectly, in large and tiny ways).
I can understand females wanting to have control over their own sexuality but as soon as someone focuses in on “patriarchy” as the problem I can’t take them seriously. Matrons are as much if not more inclined to slut shaming as patrons.