Yesterday I posted about Psychology Today blogger Kanazawa’s argument that feminism was unnecessary because women’s sexuality gives them absolute power over men (or at least the pretty ones do—I guess the ugly ones are supposed to be content as body slaves or something). The best response, from one of the commenters on the echidne blog (scroll down for the posts): “So looking hot and having power over men because of that is equivalent or even better to having wealth and political power? Then it’s astonishing we don’t have paid parental leave, free and easily available childcare, an equal rights amendment, and all the other things polls show women want. Just offer to f*** a congressman, and he’ll do whatever you want, amirite? Sexual attraction is such a great power.

And of course men have no sexual power over women, women never do foolish things to get a gorgeous guy, only men have such powerful sex drives.”
Echidne does an amazing job deconstructing Kanazawa’s sexist pseudoscience, as do her commenters, so I won’t repeat most of it here.

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