Social Media and the Hoor Economy

A Treatise on Common Sense for the Long-Term Thinking Woman

By @meghaverma_art

Social Media offers the common person fame, powerful networks, ways of making money, and of course, the chance to be an adored celebrity. This power was hitherto limited to movie stars and heiresses. As little as twenty years ago, fame was not something the average person could hope to achieve. Today, it is as easy to access as downloading instagram and pointing the camera at yourself. Easy access to power tends to bring out the worst in the average person, as they leverage the easiest possible way to gain fame.

Men and women may hold equal power in the world, just at different times in their lives. The power that a well established, rich and successful thirty-five year old man holds, can be considered equivalent to the power that a beautiful, pure and innocent eighteen year old girl holds. Power is a sword, and it does not discriminate between its holder and the enemy; it cuts them both the same. The wise, older man has gained life-experience and therefore understands how to wield his power, whereas the young and beautiful girl must either mature enough to know what to do with her power, or be cut by it. For most of human history, the young woman was protected by older men and women who loved her so that she would not make errors in judgement that would harm them long-term. Today, young women are out there alone, teaching themselves how to wield nuclear weapons, and many are destroyed in the process. 

What is it about youth that makes one so susceptible to poor decisions? By poor decisions I mean decisions that prioritize momentary benefit at the cost of long-term benefit. Perhaps it is because the young person does not believe him or herself to be vulnerable to the same forces of time that affect all humanity. The vitality of youth makes one believe that one does not need to plan for the future because every moment is the present and meant to be relished. This belief is not always a bad thing, by the way. It is the very belief that is the prerequisite for the passionate fight, the risk-taking and the creativity that creates the most magnificent works humanity has ever made. The muse, it seems, loves children most.

Nevertheless, passion can be blind and youth can burn bright and burn out if the fire is not nurtured by temperance and wisdom. What kinds of poor decisions do women make in their youth when untempered by older and wiser care-takers? In the age of social media, in a word, they become hoors.

Lady Lilith, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866, oil on canvas, Delaware Art Museum

The Hoor Economy

The easiest way for a woman to get attention is to show her body. This is the very simple maxim that explains this behaviour. And the youth of these women blinds them to the consequences of their actions. They believe that all those who preach to them about modesty and class, are simply frumpy fuddy-duddys who just want to control them because they want a delicious piece of that wonderful power that a young woman has. Good advice, when unsolicited, is always annoying and rarely heeded. This is the trouble with moral finger-waggers, they tend to exacerbate bad behaviour by inspiring insubordination if only out of spite. The only way to inspire others is by example. The purpose of this essay is simply to lay out the logic of the dilemma of the hoor economy, for posterity.

Young women, unlike the common misconception preaches, don’t merely show their bodies off in revealing pictures for men, they also like to see that they are sexier than other women. They take pictures at their best angles so that they can look at them again afterwards when they don’t feel so pretty, and to remember how beautiful they are. It is comparable to a man keeping his medals and trophies. Of course, another fuddy duddy might say that “the difference is the man earned his trophies and the woman didn’t earn her body” but ask any man who has won something magnificent. Does he want to believe he worked for it? Or does he want to believe that there is some divine spark within him that made him superior to his opponents? You can simply look into your heart and know that it is the latter. A preference for meritocracy is the lie we tell each other to be polite.

It is unnatural for a beautiful woman to hide away her body and never look at it. Like a beautiful sunset or a melodious voice, it demands appreciation. This element of the argumentation must be appreciated by even the most socially conservative prude. However, the long-term thinking woman should aim to have happiness and satisfaction for her entire life and not just for the brief time when she is in the bloom of youth. The cut flower wilts and dies within the week, the nurtured flower grows and blooms in every season. When a woman is with a man she truly respects, his validation and appreciation of her beauty is all she needs.

First, one must accept that the woman who is happiest throughout her life, is the one who has married well. She has married a man to whom she is truly attracted, who cherishes her dearly, and can take care of both her and their children. Even women who are ambitious and intelligent thrive when they are married to good men because these men will support them to pursue their ambitions properly and in the right seasons of life. Married women who start businesses tend to be more successful than unmarried women who start businesses and I suspect it is simply because their feminine intuition about business is balanced with the masculine disagreeable-ness that is so often a crucial feature of a successful business owner. The man and wife, when properly matched, balance each other’s weaknesses and enhance each other’s success overall in life.

It is possible for some women to be happy without the company of men in their lives. However, these women are the exceptions that prove the rule. Before you believe that you are the exception, you must ask yourself if you are doing anything to cope for the lack of a traditional family. Are you collecting plants and cute animals to nurture? Are you expending hours and hours on social justice causes (whether they are left wing or right)? Are you experiencing mental health issues? If any of these are true, then it could be that you are attempting to mimic the benefits that a woman gets from having a husband, children and a family. This is natural. It is not wrong to want these things, as most woman have had them for most of human history. 

A perfect example of the demise the woman should wish to avoid is Paulina Prozikov. She is an elderly woman who used to be a supermodel, and is constantly online complaining about how no one thinks that old wrinkly women are as hot as young sexy models. She demands that we democratically give her the same attention. If she were my mother or grandmother, I would be horrified at the spectacle she makes of herself online.

Another example is Valeriya Denga, a young woman who gives advice to young women about dating, but consistently takes her clothes off on camera for views. Her success and popularity is not due to her eloquence or intelligence, which she may have, but rather the fact that she is so often half-naked. This is disservice to Miss Denga and many other women like her, because their hoor behaviour discredits anything else of value they might have offered. The “respectable men” she speaks about attracting see her and women like her as nothing more than a hoor, and not a woman who would be a good mother to their daughters.

You must look at your presence online and your behaviour in general, not through your own eyes, but through the eyes of a man you respect, and through the eyes of your future children. What kind of a woman do you want them to see? What kind of woman would it benefit you most to be? The idea that you must “be yourself” is an unproductive one for self-improvement. You must be true to your desires and your heart but if you wish to improve yourself in any way, you must, by definition, be something other than what you already are.

Knowing that for the majority of women, getting married to a good man is crucial to living a happy life, we can now delve into the discussion about what this takes. 

There are two categories in which men place women that they see. They are either: hoors to use segsually and then abandon, or women to woife up as soon as possible. The woman that man sees as a hoor, is the one that he will use for comfort, like a tissue paper. He will use her segsually, and perhaps even move in with her for a little while. He will not really spend any money on her or make any major sacrifices for her. He does not really cherish her, because if he did he would have married her as soon as he could have so that no other man would have the opportunity of taking her away. A man is a loser based on how much time he expends with a woman he sees as a hoor.

The kind of man a woman really wants is a man who is a winner and is strong enough to stand up to her, and therefore others to defend their family. Think about the type of woman this man wants. He does not want a woman who shows her body on the internet for the whole world to see. He does not want a woman who has no integrity or intelligence (he is searching for the mother of his children and children inherit their intelligence and learn their values from their mother). He wants someone hot and classy.

Women who behave as hoors on social media for fame, attention or money, are really selling themselves very cheaply. If they behaved properly, cultivated their minds and exercised good values, they might actually attract a man they respect, and marry him. When a woman marries a man she respects, whether he is rich or poor, she will always ensure that she is looked after, even after her the bloom of youth has faded from her cheeks. When a woman is a hoor on social media, the only attention she gets is from men she does not respect, and she would be grossed out by in real life. Or if she does get attention from men she respects, it is never for a long-term engagement but to be used like an object. If you present yourself as an object, you will get used like one. If you present yourself like a Princess, you will get cherished like one. 

Conclusion

The Hoor Economy is an economy of short-term success. With the advent of social media, the vocation of prostitution is available to every healthy woman with a smart phone and no brain to pursue. The establishment’s advocacy for “sex work” as valid and respectable work compounds the predatory nature of these apps. The technology companies make enormous profit from young women ruining their lives in order to gain poor-quality attention from a handful of loser men, and money that will never fill the void in her heart of wanting to be cherished by a man she respects and the love of his children. There is no amount of money that can purchase respect and reputation. For a woman who wishes to be happy not just in her twenties but for her entire life, she must cultivate a reputation she would be proud to tell her grandchildren about.