The Stepford Feminists

Even if you haven't seen the movie or read the book, The Stepford Wives, is a very scary story - to most people. It's about the men of a New England town who decide they've had enough of women who want equality, careers, and lives of their own and take drastic action to get rid of them. Their solution consists of turning their wives into robots who do their every bidding, technological wonders who live for housework.

Strangely enough, it's the people you'd most expect to be upset by such a scenario - the proponents of women's equality - who are least upset by it. Take for example Norman Wilner, the movie reviewer for the Star Week in Toronto. In his July 28 review of the 25th Anniversary release of The Stepford Wives he says:

"The horror of the movie wasn't that the Stepford men were killing their wives and replacing them with docile, willing automatons; it was that they were also taking advantage of the opportunity to throw in bigger hooters while they were at it."

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Wilner typifies the new breed of modern male feminist who seem to take a special pleasure in cutting up beautiful, well-endowed women. In fact, in the same review he takes the trouble to ridicule 'hot blonde girl' Nichole M. Hiltz's performance in Amazons and Gladiators (an otherwise brilliant movie I guess). If there's anything worse than the fictional Stepford Wives, it's the real world men like Wilner who make up the ranks of the Stepford Feminists, men who happily go about doing the feminists daily chore of attacking female beauty.

In a way though, Wilner has done me a favour. For years the apologists of the feminist movement have defended its attacks on beautiful women like Playboy bunnies and such by assuring us their ultimate goal was to secure women's freedom. In reponse I've assured everyone that these people are lying - to themselves and everyone else, that they are not the least bit concerned with women's freedom, and that their true and only "ultimate" goal was their blatant and unending attacks on beautiful women. However, I never expected any of them to simply admit it as openly, and as simply as Wilner has. Clearly the size of breasts that men prefer is more a concern to him than women's lives and freedom. Finally I don't have to ask you to take my word for it. He says so.

The fictional men in The Stepford Wives were willing to deprive women of their freedom and their lives in order to get wives with big breasts. The very real feminists that I've encountered, both male and female, are willing to deprive women of their freedom and lives in order to make sure no man ever gets one.

Which is more horrible? That's a tough one.

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