Posted on 12/17/2005 5:23:21 PM PST by DeweyCA
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Levy, 31, has written a book on a topic as prickly as its hot-pink cover. "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture" is a collection of investigative pieces that takes the author from a spring-break Florida beach where giggling college students lift their shirts for video crews from the popular "Girls Gone Wild" soft-core empire and backstage with the women producers of Comedy Central's erstwhile Juggy-fest, "The Man Show" to interviews with teens and 20-somethings on their attitudes toward sex.
It's part of the job description of being female, to couch all their success and intelligence into this kind of porny sexuality. Raunch and empowerment are not synonymous."
Levy, who is 31, says she's no prude: "My point is there's too much inauthenticity, and we're embracing that. We hold up Paris Hilton as our most sexual celebrity, though she says herself she's not that sexual. If society buys into the idea that the ultimate in sexuality is the stripper or porn star -- a woman whose job it is to fake lust -- it shows they don't value real female sexual freedom and pleasure. And it undermines the fragile progress toward gaining authority that women are attempting."
Levy said the most troublesome trend she observed was the effect that the mainstreaming of porn is having on teens and preteens. In video games and on MTV, glammed-up strippers and "hos" are featured characters. In 2003, girls between the ages of 13 and 17 spent more than $157 million on thong underwear.
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I'm afraid we are going to end up with a generation of dysfunctional females who totally misunderstand sex and sexuality. What kind of mothers are these girls going to be? What kind of wives? Of course I would guess the majority of them have no relationship with their fathers.
The standards of the past were around, for a good part, to protect women from being exploited by men who want the sex without the commitment. They released the Pandora's box. They can't even fathom why women are acting this way.
You're right. Each succeeding generation could get progressively worse. We would have to hope for a productive backlash against this type of mentality. Christians would probably say that the only hope is an old-fashioned revival of spirituality and morality. Quite frankly, it's hard for me to see any alternative way of productive change.
That which they have decried in men.....they have become.
You are exactly right. They also expect men to change, according to their social engineering. It has only made men worse. Vive la difference!
BTW, page 2 of this article has some quotes from an idiot U of MN sexuality prof. Between the prof and this writer, it is hard to tell which one is more clueless. They both rail against the current administration which supports the old family values that discouraged this type of behavior. They both want "liberation" of sex, but they can't give any standards to tell the kids when to stop. The kids are simply taking the Lib's philosophy to its logical conclusion of no constraints whatsoever,and that sex is simply something to use for your personal immediate satisfaction, and that there is nothing special about it. Ideas have consequences. It's sad to see the results of Liberal thinking.
I could never understand someone who burns their bras then asks for support.
If we had government agents that were raiding gay wedding ceremonies and abortion clinics, I would see her point. But I really don't.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly the price society pays as a result of the Sixties.
Unfortunately, it will be my generation bearing the brunt the cost. Just go to any college campus or surf the Internet.
It shows up everywhere--from the MSM to movies to the popular clothing to the carefree, near-invincible attitudes. I lament on how the Feminazis' and the womyn's movements have pervaded our society and made our culture and our nation into a den of filth.
And, the fact that these same idiots want God out of our schools. That's just exascerbating the problem. While putting the Good Book and God into our schools won't solve the problem, it might very well strengthen moral values in a wide variety of kids.
That said and with the self-evident moral bankruptcy of our culture, should any of us be surprised? Absolutely not.
"Hey, I have that video!" ping.
Concise and precise. Well well said.
"Hey, I have that video!" ping"
and here's to cheap women
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