Female Chauvinist Pigs
Oprah, Pink, and Oprah's pet doctor were talking about girls these days and they're obsession with sex, physical beauty, and celebrity. You know - the girls on Girls Gone Wild and girls who "dumb" themselves down for guys. (I really didn't know this was a new phenomenon.) They called them Female Chauvinist Pigs. (Apparently - there's a new book)
"Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them."
Quote by Female friend:
"There are so many gray areas with this I don't even know where to begin.
I consider myself a feminist, and yet I love doing things like going to strip clubs. To a lot of people, that's a huge contradiction and quite possibly even very hypocritical.
What offends me about all of this is that these women worship vapid bimbos like Jessica Simpson and the rest of the cadre of "celebutantes" that are all the rage nowadays. I don't buy for a second that Jessica's in on the joke, that she's playing dumb because it's making her bucketfuls of money.
My avatars as of late I think are good examples. I used Audrey Hepburn for a while, who was not only a style icon but also worked tirelessly for the UN almost until the very end of her life.
Currently, it's Hedy Lamarr who although she bared her breasts in the film "Ecstasy" (the first nude in the history of cinema), she was also heavily involved in helping the US fight the Nazi's. Her efforts went merely beyond helping to sell war bonds, indeed she co-invented and patented a secret communications system that was used by the US. Check out her Wikipedia page; it's pretty cool.
It's pretty sad that I can't think of any contemporaries to them. Sure, there are a lot of accomplished women out there (Chicago financial whiz and advocate Melody Hobson comes to mind immediately) but these were women that managed to be glamorous, intelligent and proactive. Where have they all gone"?
Quote by Male friend:
"Some women are playing to the bitches and ho's side of pop culture. Plenty others are not.
As a parent and being around teenaged girls, I'm saddened by the sexualization of young children's clothing - down to age 6 or 7. I also know older kids in their teens do not understand the sexual messages pop culture has them send.
It's ironic in this era of the women's movement that popular culture treats women more as objects, more as sexual toys. Some of that is not bad - bringing sex out of the shadows into the light of day - but a major theme is the degradation of women".
Oprah, Pink, and Oprah's pet doctor were talking about girls these days and they're obsession with sex, physical beauty, and celebrity. You know - the girls on Girls Gone Wild and girls who "dumb" themselves down for guys. (I really didn't know this was a new phenomenon.) They called them Female Chauvinist Pigs. (Apparently - there's a new book)
"Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them."
Quote by Female friend:
"There are so many gray areas with this I don't even know where to begin.
I consider myself a feminist, and yet I love doing things like going to strip clubs. To a lot of people, that's a huge contradiction and quite possibly even very hypocritical.
What offends me about all of this is that these women worship vapid bimbos like Jessica Simpson and the rest of the cadre of "celebutantes" that are all the rage nowadays. I don't buy for a second that Jessica's in on the joke, that she's playing dumb because it's making her bucketfuls of money.
My avatars as of late I think are good examples. I used Audrey Hepburn for a while, who was not only a style icon but also worked tirelessly for the UN almost until the very end of her life.
Currently, it's Hedy Lamarr who although she bared her breasts in the film "Ecstasy" (the first nude in the history of cinema), she was also heavily involved in helping the US fight the Nazi's. Her efforts went merely beyond helping to sell war bonds, indeed she co-invented and patented a secret communications system that was used by the US. Check out her Wikipedia page; it's pretty cool.
It's pretty sad that I can't think of any contemporaries to them. Sure, there are a lot of accomplished women out there (Chicago financial whiz and advocate Melody Hobson comes to mind immediately) but these were women that managed to be glamorous, intelligent and proactive. Where have they all gone"?
Quote by Male friend:
"Some women are playing to the bitches and ho's side of pop culture. Plenty others are not.
As a parent and being around teenaged girls, I'm saddened by the sexualization of young children's clothing - down to age 6 or 7. I also know older kids in their teens do not understand the sexual messages pop culture has them send.
It's ironic in this era of the women's movement that popular culture treats women more as objects, more as sexual toys. Some of that is not bad - bringing sex out of the shadows into the light of day - but a major theme is the degradation of women".
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