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Feminism has, as others have pointed out, never really been about making women feel good or getting behind every single thing they do between waking up and going to sleep. There are no hidden networks of CCTV cameras spying on our salad eating; there is no plain-clothes fanny policeman ready to peer up our skirts and say, "Oh, you shit! You've done it again! That's another six points on your feminist licence!!!!" every time we decide to remove some pubic hair.It all reminds me a bit of "Squeeze", an episode of The X Files that scared me shitless as a teenager and revolved around a very nasty person crawling through ventilation shafts and spying on Scully in the shower. Yes, Hot Feminist isn't talking about mutant serial killers, but its undertone speaks of – warns of, even – a pernicious kind of surveillance that isn't really there. Except, perhaps, in the author's head.Watch our film – The Luxury Item: Why Is the British Government Taxing Periods?
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