Feminism Lesbianism

I wrote here that Feminism is not really about equality. I will go further and say that Feminism is not really about women - or rather, all women. Feminism, at its heart, is concerned only with lesbianism.

Feminist lesbianism despises men, for it has no actual use for them. But it also despises heterosexual women. It hates the way they contort their lives in order to attract men. It hates their overwhelming desire to read heterosexual romance novels and watch heterosexual romance movies, consuming these genres in larger numbers than men consume theirs. It hates heterosexual romance, period. Because it involves that other hated figure - men. It hates the outcome of that romance - children. It hates the whole business of childbirth, nurturing and all the other things that seem to take up so much of women's time. It can hate all these things honestly and without contradiction because, of course, lesbians only desire other lesbians. Lesbians view children the same way men do, for the chances of having to carry them inside themselves are slim. They also view heterosexual women the same way that men do, seeing them as stupid, easily led and incapable of shaping their own lives.

Heterosexual feminists defeat themselves with contradiction. They decry being turned into sex objects by men, then defend the right to wear sexy and revealing clothing in public. They condemn men's commercialisation of women's bodies when they pay prostitutes for sex, but then defend the prostitute's right to work, free from the interference of the state. They demand the right to succeed in the workplace just like men, for women can focus on their careers just like men, then demand that other women look after their children for them while they do so. They demand the right to abort foetuses, at any time, then condemn men for being cruel and heartless. They claim that women are, in fact, the same as men, and can do anything that men can, with calls to let them serve in frontline armies, for example. Then they campaign to end violence against women - and only women - as if women could not defend themselves and needed extra-legal protection.

Lesbian feminists don't have to worry about making themselves look incoherent with such demands. There is nothing in feminism that contradicts lesbianism. And that is because lesbianism is what feminism is really about.