Catherine Hakim, senior research fellow at the London School of Economics and staunch anti-feminist, is my new hero. With one book, she has done more to advance the cause of women’s liberation than months of worthy campaigning could achieve.
It’s not that Honey Money: the Power of Erotic Capital – in which Hakim argues that women should be taught to use their sex appeal to exploit men – is a bad book. It’s that it’s such a bad book, so poorly researched, so woodenly ill-written, so crassly offensive in its argument that all men are randy beasts and more women should become prostitutes, and so drearily hateful in its conclusions about human nature, that it’s a
highly effective advert for feminist revolution.
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