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'If you want to find true happiness, just fake it' (The New New Feminism)
The Observer ^ | September 3, 2006 | Amelia Hill

Posted on 09/03/2006 7:49:20 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL

'If you want to find true happiness, just fake it'

In her latest book, the feminist icon Fay Weldon has caused a sensation by turning the beliefs of the sisterhood upside down. By Amelia Hill Amelia Hill Sunday September 3, 2006

Observer Telling women not to expect orgasms but to fake them, and to praise their partner lavishly afterwards, is not advice normally associated with a woman who has been in the vanguard of feminism for four decades.

Nevertheless, Fay Weldon gives short shrift to the views for which feminists have fought so bitterly over the years. In her latest book, she not only warns high-flying women that they should expect to end up single, she also suggests that sexual pleasure may be incompatible with high-powered careers and that women should simply accept they are less capable of being happy than men.

'Eighty per cent of women only sometimes - or never - experience orgasm. Facts are facts and there we are. Deal with it,' she writes in What Makes Women Happy?, to be published this month by Fourth Estate.

According to Weldon, sensible members of the sisterhood should, therefore, follow the example so graphically set by the actor Meg Ryan in the 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally, and fake orgasms whenever necessary.

'If you are happy and generous-minded, you will fake it and then leap out of bed and pour him champagne, telling him, "You are so clever" or however you express enthusiasm,' she says. 'Faking is kind to male partners ... Otherwise they too may become anxious and so less able to perform. Do yourself and him a favour, sister: fake it.'

(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: fake; feminism; happiness; orgasm; sexes; women
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To: MAD-AS-HELL; All

not to brag, but none of the women i've ever been wth have had that problem..... LOL


41 posted on 09/03/2006 9:43:03 PM PDT by PDR
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To: eyespysomething
LOL, I'm a woman and I don't cuddle.

I'm a man, and I didn't either until my wife got me into it. It's one of those things that you don't appreciate until you experience a bunch of it.

42 posted on 09/03/2006 9:44:11 PM PDT by Wycowboy
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To: Song of the South
Maybe you two should get together. LOL

OK, but I don't know where he'd sleep, my hubby and I pretty much take up the whole bed.

;-)

43 posted on 09/03/2006 9:56:09 PM PDT by eyespysomething
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To: Mr. Jeeves
It's a learnable skill.

It sure is. And most husbands would welcome the chance to help their wives study.

44 posted on 09/03/2006 10:02:27 PM PDT by knuthom
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
This sounds like feminism declaring its own bankruptcy publicly and expecting applause for it. Like always.

Women this self-centered shouldn't even expect orgasms with a human partner. Stick to those vibrators, NOW gals.
45 posted on 09/03/2006 10:52:57 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: lionheart 247365

She would need to be capable of intimacy first, which she clearly hasn't been for quite some number of years now.


46 posted on 09/03/2006 10:56:19 PM PDT by thoughtomator (There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
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To: cyborg

"No dear, that dress does NOT make you look fat!"


47 posted on 09/03/2006 10:59:30 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("I've never seen so many testicles in my life.")
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
You're so selfish, you turn your condoms inside out... for YOUR pleasure!
48 posted on 09/03/2006 11:01:11 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: Hildy

LOL..


49 posted on 09/04/2006 12:28:10 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.)
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To: rbg81

I think mad as hell was joking....


50 posted on 09/04/2006 2:43:38 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
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To: Man50D
I've read Fay Weldon's books. lol. Let me supply the translation: Fake it only when you need to get something from the guy. Find a lover on the side.

Between the lines, she's saying that finding a true "soul" mate in a man, husband and lover, are incompatible for women. So stop trying to alienate half of the voting population who actually bother to pay attention and vote.

51 posted on 09/04/2006 4:55:32 AM PDT by Alia
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To: TASMANIANRED; Fairview

>>I think she is faking her numbers as well.

82.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot.


52 posted on 09/04/2006 5:01:37 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: lionheart 247365
I'll BET Hillary fakes it .

And Webb never knew?

53 posted on 09/04/2006 5:06:44 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Lazamataz
This thread is begging -- yea, even crying out! -- for your presence.

I'm betting on this being the most tasteful thread EVER!

54 posted on 09/04/2006 5:31:35 AM PDT by Malacoda (Bu**er Islam)
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To: sgtbono2002

"**The funny thing is that I fake too. She never can tell.**

"

"Then she must be the most stupid woman alive or else when she cleans herself she is just " Dusting".


- He was making a joke, and a rather good one at that. You must have locked your funny bone away in your dust bin. (Another joke - in case you're wondering.)


55 posted on 09/04/2006 5:43:59 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: Malacoda
I used to fake orgasm.

Oh wait, I'm a man.

56 posted on 09/04/2006 5:45:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: finnigan2
You must have locked your funny bone away in your dust bin.

Many women have called it my funny bone.

Funniest thing they've ever seen.

58 posted on 09/04/2006 5:49:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: Lazamataz

No cuddling - just some Advil and a hot shower.

Ask my husband.

;-)


59 posted on 09/04/2006 5:51:22 AM PDT by eyespysomething
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To: bannie
You're the cutest man who ever existed in this entire world!

Ahem.


60 posted on 09/04/2006 5:51:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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