A feminist on “Female Chauvinist Pigs”
Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she writes about sexuality, culture and gender politics. Her new book is Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. One reviewer writes that Levy “strips the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ culture of its cuteness in her provocative [book], arguing that post-feminist poster girls such as Playboy Bunnies offer only faux empowerment.”
Note: This is a pro-abortion, anti-abstinence only, pro-Planned-Parenthood feminist
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An Amazon reviewer remarks of her book:
The key conclusion is that it doesn’t really have anything to do with sex, per se. Levy quotes Paris Hilton’s remark, “my boyfriends say I’m sexy but not sexual.” In other words, “being hot” is a pose, an act, a tool, and entirely divorced from either physical pleasure or romantic love. Levy quotes one adult woman who cannot understand why she cannot bring herself to have sex with a man to whom she’s not attracted, and a teenaged girl who can’t grasp how a woman can “get the guy” without dressing (and acting) like a “ho.”
. . . Indeed, parents are notably missing from Levy’s analysis. . . how do 14-year-olds get the money to buy themselves thong underwear? In the litany of failure, the failure of parents to set standards and model good behavior is the dog that didn’t bark in “Female Chauvinist Pigs.”
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