You will, like as not, begin to think this will be a diatribe on how women are treated in
the media and how it's all incredibly awful that women are largely treated like meat.
But you would be wrong.
I should have possibly entitled this article 'Fuck feminists. And fuck the chip on their shoulder too'.
Now, when you REALLY think about it. There's only one group of people who can be held accountable
for the way that women are treated in this day and age: Women.
See. Feminists complain endlessly and tirelessly that playboy, FHM, etc. etc. are all objectifying women
and turning them into sex objects, but on the covers of these magazines I don't see women held down
by Elephant Tape with large burly men stood over them holding a sign saying 'sex object'.
What I see is women gleefully disrobing and spread-eagling for all the world to see. Now, you see, here's
the thing. You can complain about what these magazines do to the objectification and sexualization of
women, but if not a single women out there agreed to pose for these magazines, there would BE no
magazines.
The 'women are manipulated into it' argument is only half true. Nobody can trick or manipulate you into
getting your baps out for the big wide world. It's not as if they answered Ad's for clown school in the paper
and ended up in FHM instead. Darn that trickery. No. They knew what they were doing and the manipulator
here is their own damn selves. Their greed. They have a conscious moral choice to turn down an awful lot
of money in return for the small price of their posing in a bikini (or less) for whichever magazine you fancy.
Only the particularly stupid can be manipulated into such things if not for their own greed.
So I don't want to hear continued bullshit from militant feminists about the horrible way in which men
treat women. Because if it wasn't for women in the first place, the situation would be a nonissue.
It is women that do women a disservice for sexual equality. Nobody else.