![]() Remember Virginia Slims’ feminist pitch? “You’ve come a long way, baby.” In the ads, vintage photos of corseted women in various states of domestic subjugation (hauling laundry, cleaning dishes, fawning over men) sneaking cigs are juxtaposed against the Virginia Slims “New Woman,” brazen and liberated, and smoking loud and proud.ĭrop the “baby,” and I’ll agree that we have come a long way from days of yore when we were meant to be barefoot, pregnant, indentured servants with nary a clue we had a pearl of pleasure inside our rose petals. ![]() Past worth as a commodity on the fuckability market. They want reticence, soft, still, inner music, speechlessness, mad oblivion.”Īhh, but passé referred initially to women past the age of their most magnificent beauty. But it is not at all astounding that most men don’t like it at all. In “Chapter Nineteen: Women in Bed and the Morning After,” he tells us, “It is relatively astounding how many truly decent women all lose control of their mouths and minds when they jump in bed beside a man. ![]() The author, Thomas Horton, is a kind enough misogynist to elucidate all our faults (many and sundry) and failings (endless and specific) so that we may better serve the fragile egos and tenuous erections of boyfriends and husbands. What Men Don’t Like About Women, is a 1945 self-help book for lonely ladies in want of manly men.
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