Reply #21: Goody! I hope my library has it! [View All]

[Syncronaut Seven]

Looks like a good read!

A quote from the first reviewer:

In so doing, Levy makes some depressing discoveries about what the ideal of the "empowered" woman has been reduced to, and why strippers and "adult actresses" -- porn stars -- have been adopted as role models. 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."

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I've seen the phenomenon. I have an 11 year old daughter. We discuss it.
I never tied it to feminism, I can't imagine. It seems more like raw exploitation to me.

I'm also a semanticist, I fear the term "feminism" is being redefined by its most violent foes.

PS: If you can keep your kids away from TV until they posses the skills for critical thought and reasoning, you've won half the battle. We've been cable free for more than 20 years. When we do watch these days, my daughter and I dissect both programs and advertising. She's pretty savvy, She will do well.

Edit: Link.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743249895/sr=8-1/qid=1156523127/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9838314-3583225?ie=UTF8