oursin | Query: maybe not really The New Thing??? (Reply)

(Or, I am over here, paging Lorelei Lee:

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Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women:

“Ideas like men are the gatekeeper of relationships and women are the gatekeepers of sex,” she said.
“So women’s currency in the sexual marketplace resides in her withholding sex from men, and you diminish your value if you have casual sex.”
Or the idea that, to counter women’s lesser earning power (the gender pay gap in the UK was 14.3% last year), rather than fighting for pay equality, a man should provide for a woman financially, and women must “embrace feminine energy” to secure a husband. Kay said: “It’s incredibly conservative, but it’s trying to reframe it as being this empowering strategy.”

I seem to recall that back in the days of the 70s and the Second Wave, there was this sort of stuff around - wasn't there a work Total Woman? or was it The Sensuous Woman?

Which was pretty much an update, I guess, on the 'golddigger' model that LL had been presenting.

I'm not sure Helen Gurley Brown and Sex and the Single Girl etc really fitted that model, because it was more about making sure the Single Girl made her own dough - which might lead to a position where she got her pick of A Better Class of Bloke when she got round to considering Mattermoney, but that wasn't really the endgame.

And of course, how far this is really A Thing, is maybe questionable.