"Women have fought long and hard for equality."

Thus begins David Sherman in the Ottawa Citizen of November 27.

Someone sent me flowers this week and they came with some crumpled up newspaper featuring the story linked above. There is no other way I'd read the Ottawa Citizen. You probably don't want to read it yourself, it's barely coherent.

You could sum up the Sherman piece as follow: Feminists fought long and hard for freedom and women now do all sorts of stuff they couldn't do very easily all that long ago but women also "happily display themselves as sex objects".

This, apparently, is a problem. I wonder why?

Here's the thing, though, women are doing this willingly. Not all women, some women hate this stuff. Fat lot of good it does them though.

Anyway, back to our buddy David Sherman. He considers a number of possible explanations for this phenomenon but skips blithely past the most likely culprit. Sherman keeps asking how this could have happened even after feminism. What he doesn't consider is the possibility that this is the result of feminism.

Look, you tell women they can do what they want and they'll do it. Some women, a minority but a large enough minority that no one can ignore them, decided to display themselves as sex objects. And let's not kid ourselves, they are doing more than displaying: they are being sex objects for the men in their lives.

Two questions:

1. They're is something wrong with this? 
2. Are women only allowed to use their freedom to make the choices that David Sherman wants them to make?

I'm quite serious about the first. Sex is physical act. Your physical body becomes available for someone else's pleasure and theirs becomes available for yours. Your two auras don't bond in cosmic purity. You get down and ....

Don't tell poor David Sherman but my best guess is all this women putting themselves on display we've seen for, well it's three decades now the way I count it, anyway, the point is, this is normal. This is what you get in a society where women and men have equal freedoms: that is to say the not terribly surprising result that the basic biological differences between men and women translate into behaviour patterns peculiar to each sex (and I mean each sex not each gender).