"Can you explain how "palming off sexual promiscuity as empowerment" is to the benefit of lesbians?"
In this instance the word is really included in the broad scope of "other people who might want to have sex with a given individual". I suppose it could be refined, but I felt getting more specific with words like "predatory" seemed to be suggesting something about lesbians in particular which I don't want to do - no if college boys can be understood to be predatory in the context of the sentence, so can lesbians by anybody reading it in good faith.
I would appreciate it if some people could approach the conversation on some kind of a human and respectable level, I'm reasonably well-educated and intelligent and asking in good faith, so I have no need to be patronized by anybody, thank you very much.
Ready I agree, I think it is disgusting that sex is seen as the primary power women have and that needs to be resolved, however I have yet to see any convincing rationale explaining how that would be achieved by disaggregating everything we know or have studied and replacing it with, in the current context, encouraging hypersexualized behaviour as a political protest, achieves much but putting young women at risk either from the perils of that context, or from making choices that can make them unhappy in the long run like STDs, unwanted pregnancy, or things they as an individual would not otherwise have done. Disarmament may seem like a great solution if you feel the only weapon you have is bullshit, but ultimately all it is actually doing is rendering yourself powerless through short-termism. Common sense would suggest you expand your arsenal first and keep that weapon or discard it later at your leisure.
To continue the "weapon" theme, there is also the risk of exposure to danger, which is a precarious line to walk because obviously blaming the victim is to be avoided at all times, but that has to be balanced by the fact that if you are in the woods where there are wolves, you are probably better off having a means of protecting yourself than having a very good argument as to why it was the wolves' fault. When we are literally talking about the lives and safety of DDs, this is not some abstract point but a practical consideration.