I heard this interview of Ariel Levy on NPR the other day speaking about her new book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture and how modern women have sort of perverted the accomplishments of the feminist movement by using provocative attire, promoscuity, and exhibitionism as evidence of their empowerment as women.
It's an odd world we live in, and seems like everyone's trying to live at the extremes sometimes. Before women couldn't even expose a little ankle without being called a whore, and now women are running around without underwear.
Wild Willie (and Fandango in a couple of months), you've got a tough road ahead when your daughters have "exceptional" role models like Lindsay Lohan to look up to:
Lindsay - who has been linked to several different famous men in recent months, including Paris Hilton's ex Stavros Niarchos - told Elle magazine: "My mum is going to kill me for speaking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people."My wife sees Sex and the City as a highly empowering show for women, which it actually is. Unfortunately, if Ho-han's interpretation is representative, young women seem to be focusing on the part where they sleep around as the empowering aspect of the show.
When did monogamy become such a bad thing?
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I would figure that the sexual empowerment derived from the last century would have to do more with the lessening of men being able to tell women how they can use their sexuality. In short, women finally are more able to own their own sexuality.
My layman's guess from what I've heard of Lohan's family woes is that her promiscuity deep down has more to do with seeking love and acceptance than sexual freedom. At the same time, not knowing the love and acceptance from a healthy childhood (parental, that is) one becomes afraid of true intimacy.
So, not knowing how to create and receive true adult love, one falls back on an earlier understanding, namely sex. Then take into account that the person fears yet still craves intimacy, and you get a person who sees love as sex, uses her fame and figure to get sex (love), but then fears that it may turn into real intimacy and so drops the stud, only to feel the craving s anew and thus find another one.
Using feminine wiles to lead men around by the nose, and then dump them. That's hardly feminist progress - that's as old as the hills, man.
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