'The Chocolatiest Sex' (2012) appropriated doll, condom, chocolate
Nina Power, One Dimensional Woman:
"Almost everything turns out to be 'feminist' - shopping, pole-dancing, even eating chocolate... it's every woman for herself, and if it is the Feminist woman who gets the nicest shoes and the chocolatiest sex, then that's just too bad for you, sister... to Freud's infamous question, 'what do women want?' it seems, then, that we have all-too-ready an answer. Why! They want shoes and chocolate and handbags and babies and curling tongs washed down with a large glass of white wine and a complaint about their jobs/men/friends... but a hip young feminist must have her indulgences... chocolate has come to represent that its female devourer is a little bit, well, 'naughty'... chocolate represents that acceptable everyday extravagance that all-too-neatly encapsulates just that right kind of perky passivity that feminized capitalism just loves to reward with a bubble bath and some crumbly cocoa solids... what makes women happy? Ask them and they'll reply, in roughly this order: sex, food, friends, family, shopping, chocolate."
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