Στρινγκ και Φεμινισμός

Ούτε 7 το πρωί δεν είναι κι εγώ διαβάζω για βρακιά και φεμινισμό. Διάβασα αυτό το άρθρο σον Guardian και μου φάνηκε πολύ καλό.
Πρόκειται για μια αντιπαράθεση που συμβαίνει στην Αμερική αυτές τις μέρες μεταξύ των φεμινιστριών τρίτης γενιάς που θεωρούν ότι το να φοράς στρινγκ και γενικά να ανεμίζεις τη σεξουαλικότητα σου δεν ενδυναμώνει τις γυναίκες. Ο αντίλογος όμως λέει ότι οι γυναίκες δε χρειάζονται ενδυνάμωση (empowerment) πια:
«We're not trying to be empowered. The twentysomething women I know don't care about old-style feminism. Partly this is because they already see themselves as equal to men: they can work, they can vote, they can bonk on the first date. For younger women, raunch is not about feminism, it's just about fashion.
Another reason for the rise of raunch is that women are rediscovering the joy of being loved for their bodies, not just their minds. Today sexes mix a lot more than they used to, so boys grow up having girls as friends. They tend to listen to what women have to say, and when they marry they don't consider sharing the housework to be castrating. Instead of desperately longing for the right to be seen as human beings, today's girls are playing with the old-fashioned notion of being seen as sex objects. (Χμμ, ελπίζω να έχει δίκιο για τις νέες γενιές αντρών και τις δουλειές. Με το τελευταίο θα συμφωνήσω απόλυτα).
Λένε, οι φανατικές φεμινίστριες ότι το να επιδεικνύουμε το σώμα μας δε μας φέρνει πιο κοντά στον εαυτό μας αλλά στα πρότυπα των αντρών. «But what if a woman's "own, specific self" is a thong-wearing, Playboy-T-shirted specific self who thinks lap-dancing is a laugh and likes getting wolf-whistled at by builders?» (Πραγματικά, τώρα που δε μας συμβαίνει πια αυτό, μας λείπει, και ειλικρινά την τελευταία φορά που κάποιος μου σφύριξε στο δρόμο ξαφνιάστηκα τόσο που αποσυντονίστηκα εντελώς !) What if a woman spends hours in the gym to create a body she is proud of? Is that a waste of time, time she should have spent in a university library? No.
Και το συμπέρασμα; «If a thong makes you feel fabulous, wear it. For one thing, men in the office waste whole afternoons staring at your bottom, placing bets on whether you're wearing underwear. Let them. Use that time to take over the company. But even if you wear naughty lingerie for you, for no other reason than it makes you feel good, that is reason enough to keep it on. True feminism should celebrate femininity, and make you feel wonderful to be born a woman. It's a shame some feminists today can't do the same».
Γι αυτό κορίτσια, τα στρινγκάκια σας και στη δουλειά!