Here are America's girls: on their knees.

[limbicquestion]

Excerpt from:
"Are You There God? It's Me, Monica"
How Nice Girls Got So Casual About Oral Sex
Caitlin Flanagan, Atlantic Monthly"We've made a world for our girls in which the pornography industry has become increasingly mainstream, in which Planned Parenthood's response to the oral-sex craze has been to set up a help line, in which the forces of

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[moominmuppet]

I did a quick search, because the author's name rang a bell:

Ms. Magazine Decodes Anti-feminist writer Caitlin Flanagan

She's apparently been up to this bullshit for a while.

[limbicquestion]

Good call.

It's true: she's a compelling enough a writer, that you sort of want to give her thoughts some weight...until you realize how myopic her perspective is.

I found her article, "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement," and stuck it on my reading list.

What do you think of women who are self-proclaimed anti-feminists?

[moominmuppet]

What do you think of women who are self-proclaimed anti-feminists?

They drive me absolutely batshit. Much more so than anti-feminist men. On some intellectual levels I can parse where they're coming from, in terms of cultural background and such, but it doesn't change my gut reaction, which is a lot of anger.

[theglasstheatre]

as a companion to this, check out this passage from a 1952 edition of a book on proper etiquette. too funny...