Sublime

But the sex-education program, because it discourages extramarital sex and promotes marriage, focuses the girls on finding a husband (who more or less has to be a sugar daddy), undoing the effect of the uniforms.

In the 1970s and much of the 1980s, feminist scholars looked closely at women’s roles in the family and workforce and at social expectations that women be feminine, submissive, and beautiful, if not sexually available and pornographic. Marxist ideas of women as a subordinated class that exists to support men (who, in turn, support capitalism)

The feminist uncanny valley is the result of a larger neoliberal framework that over the past five decades has come to unite politics, economics, and culture in a web of individualism, privatization, and decreasing focus on both community and compassion.

The unequal ability of one person to capitalize on another is a classic measure of exploitation in Marx’s terms. Men’s surplus value from girl capital goes largely unseen, since girls’ participation in the clubs is assumed to be fun, leisure, and not work—much like other forms of women’s labor, like care work and reproductive labors in the

behavior was changing.

Modern, early twentieth-century dating was originally called “treating”: unmarried young working-class women accepted men’s invitations for entertainment and consumer goods in exchange for implied sexual favors.15 Known as “charity girls,” they worked in low-paid jobs like factories and lived at home, often in tenement flats too cramped to host

Contemporary liberalism erodes the liberal tradition in two ways. First, it promotes ever-increasing negative liberty – freedom from restrictions except the law and private conscience – to the point where it flips over into the tyranny of individual choice abstracted from any relational constraints of family, community or nature.