Let's talk about reactionary feminism - or the new wave of cult-heroine anti-male "feminist" influencers advising their followers to forget love and focus on cynically extracting as much (commercial) value out of men as possible. Think sugar daddies, but without even the pretence of romance. If you get traded like an object by men anyway, why not beat them at their own game and sell yourself as such to the highest bidder on your terms?
Is this just a natural reaction to the anti (empowered) male reactionaries like Andrew Tate?
Can we blame women for commoditising their relationships (and themselves!) in our "web3 commercialise all the things" economy?
Are there parts of love and romance that can't be priced? (Or is that just naive mysticism? Is everything and everyone just hardware and software that can be - and should be - taken apart, priced and sold?)
Who is winning here? Or is all this just competing over the losing compensation prize?
Let me know. As you know human markets and our instance of quantifying and pricing the sacred is one of my very most favourite topics to unpick.
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If you can’t beat them, sell yourself : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/female-andrew-tate-influencer-dating-debt-man-bills
Commoditisation of everything :
The price of reactionary feminism