I came across this. It is a very uncomfortable read but I think it does suggest to me a reason why so many young women are, in effect, trying to escape from being a woman.
Robert Jensen - Getting Off
Our First Glance In The Mirror: The Rowdy Boys
I am at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas in January 2005. At one of the 300 exhibitor booths on the floor of the Sands Expo Center is Tiffany Holiday, a woman who performs in pornographic movies. She is kissing and touching another female performer, and a crowd of men gathers around. There are rules for how much actual sexual activity can take place on the convention floor, and the two women are pushing the boundary. The crowd encourages them to go further. The other woman leaves, and Tiffany begins to simulate masturbation, all the while talking dirty to the men gathered around her. The crowd swells to about 50 men. I’m stuck in the middle, holding a microphone for a documentary film crew. Emboldened by the size of the crowd, the men’s chants for more explicit sex grow louder and more boisterous. Holiday responds in kind, encouraging the men to tell her what they like. The exchange continues, intensifying to the point where the men are moving as a unit—like a mob.
Men’s bodies are pressed against each other as each one vies for the best view of the woman’s breasts, vagina, and anus. Many of the men are using cameras, camcorders, or cell phones to record the scene. It’s difficult not to notice—not to feel—that the men pressed up against me have erections. It’s difficult not to conclude that if there weren’t security guards on the floor, these men would likely gang-rape Tiffany Holiday.
This is an expression of the dominant masculinity in the United States today. It is the masculinity of a mob, ready to rape.
Ugh, disgusting.
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