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The Slow Revolution - 2020
Social revolutions always happen when a powerful human desire is repressed and hidden. For example, the need to express your physical needs helped to usher in the sexual revolution in the early 1960s; for years people felt a social pressure to never acknowledge their bodily desires, but suddenly - after the repression reached a boiling point - it became acceptable.
Feminism piggybacked on this revolution, attempting to convince women that they weren't actually yearning for sexual satisfaction, but rather freedom from male 'oppression'. This created a constant contradiction - women were told it was okay to express a desire for men, but were also told most their desires for men came from being 'tricked' into submission.
Eventually women began to reject feminism, although never saying it explicitly. They began to reject the idea that they needed to read several dozen academic books to understand their sexuality. Quite rightly, they realised the best way to understand sex was to look at their own body in the mirror, and conclude what its shape, strength and desires meant. And gradually, year by year, the very concept of what it meant to be a woman began to permanently change.
It started slow. Popular books about female submission came out. 'Housewife chic' became fashionable. Pre-feminist music came back into radioplay, such as swing as jazz. Nobody would say it out loud, but most people preferred living in a more traditional mindset. By 2020, a nationwide poll by USA Today published that 81% of women 'strongly believed' that women were more sexually and emotionally satisfied when they automatically took a submissive role with men. This wasn't just in the bedroom, either; popular magazines gushed about the benefits of letting the man make every decision, as it gave a lingering sense of warmth and protection throughout an otherwise predictable life.
We now view 2020 as the official start of the Slow Revolution. Over the next 30 years, life would change dramatically for most people living in developed countries. Here we look at several real case studies of women from that emerging period, to understand how they view their bodies within a post-feminist world.
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