There’s an interesting quote from the above book by Dita Von teese (burlesque artist)
“They won’t find anything liberated in my representing myself as bound, weak, vunerable – sterotypically female. John Willie called it “The realization of helplessness”. There is strength in submission. Why is it more acceptable to play a dominatrix than a damsel in distress? Ernest Greene said “Feminine submission is the last stereotyped to be liberated”. Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch said “Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is a womans entire but decisive advantage.”
So the new feminine could be strength masqueraded as vunerability?
