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[bellturtle]

"How is resurrecting every stereotype of female sexuality that feminism endeavored to banish good for women? Why is laboring to look like Pamela Anderson empowering? How is imitating a stripper or a porn star going to render us sexually liberated?"
-Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Comments

[cell44]

Prom?

Or just powerful?

[bellturtle]

Hm? I'm lost.

[doubleaadogg]

Sexual liberation sounds like a contradiction of terms. Sex is highly stimulating, but, save masturbation, is dependant on another willing party--or parties if that's what you're into. Sex requires pleasing the other person--unless you are a complete prick-- which is inherently unliberating.

[milkshook]

Oh, Lord. You broads and your crazy delusions of equality.

That was facetious, and I fully acknowledge the reality that you could kick my ass.

But in all seriousness, I don't really get the relevance of this. Many - if not most - people aren't self-assured enough to empower themselves, but the sense of validation that a girl with breast implants gets from men is psychopharmacologically identical to the one you get from knowing that you're smarter than the girl with the fake tits. Why undermine its legitimacy?

Also, the notion that narrow gender roles and sexual myopia is specific to women is ludicrous. And I think they're fair questions, but immediately made me blanch because I find feminism so antediluvian. Sexual liberation is a human challenge, not a female one.

It's worth nothing that I'm both drunk, and probably wrong. And a misogynist. And drunk.

[bellturtle]

There are many women out there who have never had an orgasm because they are afraid of their own genetalia and their male partners are as well. I'm not asking for just equality, but basic human rights.

You should come home for Labor Day weekend and come to Sasquatch with us on Saturday in the Gorge (BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS, THE FLAMING LIPS, THE SHINS, THE TRAGICALLY HIP, NEKO CASE, IRON & WINE, SUFJAN STEVENS, GOMEZ, ROGUE WAVE, AND MORE)

[milkshook]

Holy shit. I might have to. I was going to get there on May 30-ish anyway... so maybe I could just fly in on Friday the 26. Who are you going with/are you staying for Sunday?