I think 3rd wave feminism sees the pursuit of sexual fulfillment as a lever by which women can be pried off of worries over any of those things, and tacitly tends to encourage men to see things the same way
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like a lot of the jezebel "virgin ugly loser" stuff is candy for its audience, but it also fends off both men and women seeing a higher calling in family life that competes with atomized perpetual adolescence
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I've never read anything in Jezebel remotely sympathetic to women and girls who are shy or awkward and can't find a partner.
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And they completely erase the phenomenon of involuntarily childless women too.
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They see traditional beauty standards as a problem, which is consistent with his point.
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I disagree, I don't see their discarding of traditional beauty norms as undertaken in the interest of making the sexual marketplace more egalitarian, it's more about constructing a sense of self worth that isn't dependent on male approval
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It’s about them being seen as more attractive.
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Yes, that is the rub. Attractiveness is really ordered to reproduction and the opposite sex, so there is a pull back towards those things no matter how hard you try to construct an argument against it.
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They do if it happens to women
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