Σ Frame

It’s NOT Faux Mate Signaling, it’s Female Vanity.

Readership: All
Theme: Awareness and Introspection; Girl Game; Rationalism;
Length: 3,600 words
Reading Time: 20 minutes

Intro

Men have observed, and have often been thoroughly annoyed with the way modern women will obviously and openly flaunt their womanly wares for all the world to watch with elevator eyes on literally every jiggle and squeeze of cleavage possible, and then vehemently object to ANY response this receives from men, as well as any response from women that is not obsequiously and outlandishly affirming.

Over at The Fiamengo File: The Curious Case of the Self-Objectifying Feminist (2024/9/15), Janice Fiamengo critiques what is probably the most visually obvious contradiction in modern Feminism: the claim that the male gaze objectifies and dehumanizes women, even while many women, including prominent Feminists, actively court male attention through sexualized self-presentation.

Fiamengo contends that as women’s freedoms have expanded, overt sexual display has intensified, often paired with not-so-plausible denial and accusations against men (e.g., criminalizing cat-calling or staring).  She attributes this to unacknowledged female desires for attention and power.  Meanwhile, Feminism demonizes male sexual desire as abusive dominance rather than natural attraction.  Moreover, there is a repulsive lack of self-reflection among women, fueling ongoing misandry and victimhood narratives.  Some commenters have praised her analysis while others criticized it as “too patriarchal”.

Although Fiamengo has offered us a fantastic description of women’s self-objectification, she doesn’t explain the whys and wherefores.

Here, I’ve picked out a few excerpts that offer a concise description of this phenomenon, and added some mansplaining to fill in the knowledge gap.  [Emphasis mine.]