Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

symbol of real manhood; punishment is the prerogative of the manunless he loses that prerogative by failing, in which case the female,as the most masculine, usurps the prerogative; force is integral tofucking; and dominance is the ultimate purpose of sexual behavior.These are the values embodied in Whip Chick. This is the house thatJack built.Fourth, Whip Chick warns specifically that the feminist wants tocastrate the male, use his sexuality as her own against him. It warnsthat if men do not keep male power sacrosanct, the dangerous,uppity women will take it from them and use it against them. Itpostulates that women will do to men what men have done towomen. This presentation of women as vicious castrators if giventhe chance suggests that men’s only protection is an unambiguouscommitment on the part of men to sexual conquest of women.Fifth, if men do experience guilt over what they do to women,the specter of women punishing them in ways they can understand,given their limited frame of reference, might provide some releasefrom guilt with no loss of self-esteem (since the book is ludicrous inits style and since a man, Scott, trium phs over the amazon in theend).Sixth, Whip Chick postulates that all any woman really wants—however shrewish or dangerous she is— is a man who can fuck ordominate her. Any bitch can be tamed by a man who is manlyenough.T he ultimate impact of Whip Chick is to clarify the nature of malepower and demonstrate how to hold onto it. In fantasy, the malecan experiment with the consequences as he imagines them of lossof power over women. He can expect that what he has done towomen will be done to him. H e can view his own devastation in hisimagination, experience it as a self-induced, self-contained, m asturbatorysexual reality and, when the book is closed, as a result ofhaving read it, be armed more thoroughly against any vulnerabilitythat might imperil him. H e will be convinced that male power canonly be maintained by an absolutely cruel and ruthless subjugationof women. And not coincidentally, “liberated wom en, ” “amazons, ”will be the most dangerous women, most in need of subjugation,