Feminist Argument On Individual Choice

Thesis Argument: The Choice Feminist acceptance and endorsement of modern day body modification practices, procedures, and sexual behavior as one of individual choice, is a flawed representation of feminine power. In fact, I contend that women are diminishing the respect they receive from male counterparts, and are continuously objectifying their bodies with the various body enhancements and explicit public sexual behavior.
Susan Bordo, John Gaventa, and several feminist authors that I will mention in this essay, will further strengthen my argument against the choice feminist approach of individual choice, and will underline how the current patriarchal power, media/advertisements, and the pop-culture industry of celebrities and models has …show more content…
Western feminist Andrea Dworkin has also argued that women in Chinese societies during the era of foot binding, were “unrelentingly oppressed, their bodies ruined in service to patriarchy in a way that should be categorically and unquestioningly reformed... all women experience patriarchal denigration, but Chinese foot bound women experienced some of the worst” . These are truly powerful and important words to think about as we dive into the modern day practices, specifically on the idea of a constant patriarchal defamation that exists today. Dworkin writes about the sexual exploitation and the soto-masichist approach in which “a man’s love for woman, his sexual adoration of her, his human definition of her, his delight and pleasure in her, requires her negation: the physical crippling and psychological lobotomy. That is the very nature of romantic love. . . . he will have her as sex, even if he must destroy the bones in her feet to do it. Brutality, sadism, and oppression emerge as the substantive core of the romantic ethos”. There is nothing that can better represent the sexism, and male domination present in China at the time these practices had played