Darling, Yes, Step into the Pavilion of Mirrors
Groups like Equality Now merely exist to the commercial sexual exploitation of women in its campaign against sex tourism and trafficking. I mean would such an outfit be funded to tackle women. Or are the men on kens cousin’s Island going to be figured as just exploiting in another way?
Few items are more powerful in a public debate than publicly acknowledged victim status, and the rewards for public victimhood are so great there is a large incentive for people to try to portray themselves as victims. Thus the victim class grows bigger as more try to crowd into it, and others copy their tactics. Little tiny Asian women being preyed upon by big nasty economically superior foreigners is surely a target fro those who wish to apply the sticker ‘victim’. But there are so many others. The must stand in line in order of priority. ………. *** At the beginning of twenty-first century in Britain, the obese, Christians, smokers and fox-hunters are campaigning to achieve publicly recognised victimhood, with the hunters trying unsuccessfully to turn PC on its head by declaring they are the real victims of ‘prejudice’. Advances in medical
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diagnosis have meant that boys who would previously have been considered naughty and in need of discipline are now considered victims of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder in need of support and treatment. XI People believe that which makes them feel virtuous, not that which makes them feel bad. Most people have an intense need to believe they are on the side of virtue, and can do that by espousing beliefs publicly acknowledged as virtuous. Nothing makes multi-millionaire Hollywood actors who live in Beverley Hills feel better about themselves than campaigning against world poverty by demanding more aid from the West (rather than holding African leaders responsible for the plight of their people by demanding better governance). All this ‘exploiting’ all the time. What about nihilism? Well sexual nihilism. I saw a program the other night which aimed to make a women feel more sexy. This 35 year old hadn’t had a boyfriend for 9 years! It made me remember a different side to swinging London. There have always, of course, in every society, in every age, been people living by themselves - widowers, divorcees, spinsters, they were
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