Sublime

For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives.

Women expect men to develop useful skills, be masculine, strong, and acquire resources that a woman and her offspring can benefit from. Her sexual strategy is hypergamy and, as a result, it continuously asks her if you are the best she can do.

We both still think of ourselves as feminists, but it’s a new brand of feminism we adhere to. It is a feminism that finally allows us to build our own work-life model, one that permits us to be who we really want to be.

For the logic of patriarchy, hence misogyny, very much includes a commitment to gender binarism (see Digby [2014]), as well as an anti-trans metaphysics of gender (see Bettcher [2007, 2012]), a heteronormative view of human sexuality (see Dembroff [2016], for an alternative conceptual framework to the usual distinctions between homo-, hetero-, and

Our political and cultural priorities aren’t about making life more enjoyable but about getting ahead, attaining bigger and better things, “having it all.” But the system is rigged: Men have long been able to “have it all” because of free female labor.

sociologist Jessie Bernard argued in the early 1970s that increasing men’s opportunities for sexually novel partners was one of the most important social changes required in Western societies to promote marital happiness.29

and social capital—was first set out in 1983 by the French sociologist, anthropologist,

heterosexual gender roles do not translate neatly into sexual fantasies.