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What surrounds us is not sex itself but the illusion of sex, and airbrushed vision of enforced fun-fisting sexuality that is as sterile as it is relentless.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
What is at play here is a horror of flesh: a rubberised capitalist repugnance for the meat and intimacy of human sexuality.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
The Bunny brand is a Lacanian play of signs bounding blithely away from any signifiable sexuality.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter.
Moderate liberalism cherishes the idea of “civility” because it allows it to believe in its own goodness and relevance.
Young people growing up with pressure to perform in every aspect of their lives find themselves aping a robotic capitalist eroticism that has little to do with their own legitimate desires.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
Sex work is an economic question, not a moral one: in a world where shame and sexual violence are still hard currency, the normalization of the sex industry is a symptom not of social degeneration, but of the economic exploitation of women on a unprecedented scale.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
I will not be bullied by bad-faith actors trying to rules-lawyer my own principles against me into treating neo-Nazis with respect they don’t deserve.
It is staggeringly clear that formal debate is failing to stop white supremacy. This is not an abstract philosophical issue. White supremacy is here, at the heart of world governments.
Being better at debating does not make you right. It just makes you better at debating.
The far right does not respect the free and liberal exchange of ideas. It is not open to compromise, and it does not want a debate. It wants power.
If we want to be free, the women of the 21st century need to stop playing the game. We need to end our wary efforts to believe that our bodies are acceptable and begin to know, with a clear and billiant certainty, that our persons are powerful.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
Feminists - even prominent ones with big platforms to shout from - do not get to be the gatekeepers of what is and what is not female, what is and is not feminine, any more than patriarchal apologists do. Intrinsic to feminism is the notion that such gatekeeping is sexist, recalcitrant, and damaging.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
It can hardly be argued that the ubiquity of the Playboy Bunny logo or its popularity with young girls are positive developments, but it must be understood that what is being objected to here, as elsewhere, is not sex, but symbol: the black-and-white, liplesss, featureless symbol of a perky, prosthetic sexuality whose alienation from the flesh and intimacy of real sex can be mass-produced.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
We cannot fuck our way to freedom. Sexuality alone, and heterosexuality in particular, is never enough to destabilise complex architectures of money and power. Without political agitation, sex can always be co-opted, calcifying gender revolution into another weary parade of saleable binary stereotypes.
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)