That old dismaying, revolting double standard is alive and well and more dangerous than ever. Women’s sexuality has been ‘freed’ into odious forms of subjugation – commercial currency in the market place and a truly dismaying level of degradation in the porn industry which these days is a very lucrative forum for rape culture. The feminine (in both men and women) is still derided and despised, in fact more deeply so by the malignant masculine. One of the manifestations of this is in the flourishing of rape culture, attack at the most fundamental and personal level of all – sexuality – now embedded so deeply in the culture it is hardly remarked upon, and outrage is often disappointingly tepid, or plain missing. The loss of absolute power over women has manifested in a virulent hatred of the feminine (in both men and women by both men and women) in this element and these individuals. There is a persistent backlash from the malignant masculine element (not all men, not all of the masculine). We also live in a time when a great many young women shun the term ‘feminist’ and there is, in general, a regressive pull backwards. We live in an age of official gender equality, and it’s true that a great deal has changed thanks to the resistance of women in our mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers times.
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