Camilla Long writes a most outrageously funny piece in the Sunday Times magazine. Her take on feminism and women’s obsession with their vaginas is hilariously thought-provoking.
Last month, she joined a march of fifty feminists down Harley Street in protest against labiaplasty, which is a process of surgically nipping and tucking your Violet Elizabeth – the latest in haute couture.
Among the marchers, a woman had carefully embroidered ‘Viva La Vulva’ on the underside of her skirt in sequins.
‘It is the biggest growing area of cosmetic surgery,’ she said, adding: ‘The doctors are profiting from women’s self-hatred. They are pornifying our culture.’
Camilla remarks, in her discomfort, that perhaps we are missing the point. If feminism is drowning in a sea of dubious publicity and stick-on fannies, the real issues have been obscured by a bizarre new hobby.
Would a man ever ask his woman to change her vagina? Or is it simply a new quirkiness that every so often women turn to in their quest to embellish their private parts?
I personally would opt for natural beauty without any need for change or surgical enhancement of any kind.
Any comments please…
Pornography , Barbie dolls and Women’s magazines have a lot to answer for! The plastinisation of women is so common place that you cannot look in a magazine without seeing some poor female who has allowed herself to become an object! What with fake breasts filled with matress foam, bleached teeth and anus’s. Vagina’s cut and redesigned to resemble a 12 year old’s. Fillers injected into every facial wrinkle and lips so inflated they resemble the vulva. If women are doing this to themselves for themselves it is definite proof of self hatred.. If they are doing this for men and it is what men want and percieve to be the ideal of womanhood. Then there are no real men out there only women haters who are afraid of true women. It is a sad world that makes men hate women but an even sadder world when women hate themselves!