Review: Really unappealing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
After seeing an ad on a bulletin board offering "Submission Training," college student Meghan decides to ditch her boyfriend (almost fiance) and begin exploring her desires.Pretty standard stuff, but it's presented in a very unappealing way.  Meghan chooses to understand her particular desire to submit as some sort of repudiation of feminism.  There's a scene where she stands up to a feminist teacher to describe why feminism is no longer necessary (to the delight of her classmates).  Later, in another scene, she specifically contrasts her actions (following the instructions of her mystery teacher and pleasuring herself in front of an open window in view of a crowd) as real liberation.  It's unclear why the author feels that voluntary submission is somehow at odds with feminism, as if feminism isn't what gives consensual power exchange some of its heat (instead of it just being something that is expected, as a matter of course, from every woman).  She doesn't feel like she needs feminism, that's fine.  But the main character is someone who plans on trading for her looks to get a high paying job and her blindness to what this means to her rejection of feminism for ALL women really makes me question her intelligence.