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Overall the book had some excellent points, but I don't take very kindly to the use of words like 'bimbo' or 'pathetic' to describe women who may be more overtly sexual than the author would like.
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What a woman was criticized for doing yesterday she is ridiculed for not doing today. - Edith Wharton, 1915
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Raunch culture, then, isn't an entertainment option, it's a litmus test of female uptightness.
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Hefner said that he wouldn't mind if his daughter, Christie, then fourteen, appeared in Playboy one day; "I would consider it a compliment to me and my work." But again, he would want that to be a show of sexiness, not an indication of an unbridled sexuality like his own. "I wouldn't like my daughter to have a promiscuous life. I would not like my daughter to be immoral."
Ewww
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It's in fashion, and it is something that has traditionally appealed exclusively to men and actively offended women, so producing it or participating in it is a way both to flaunt your coolness and to mark yourself as different, tough, looser, funnier - a new sort of loophole woman who is "not like other women," who is instead "like a man."
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It can be fun to feel exceptional - to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.
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For understandable reasons, our overwhelming focus on teen sexuality in the wake of AIDS has been on danger and "risk behavior." Tolman writes that "this tendency, an artifact of public policy and funded research geared toward avoiding the risks of sexuality, leads us to single out girls as the receptacle of our concerns."
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...about a quarter of girls between ages fifteen and nineteen describe their first time as "voluntary but unwanted," according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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We have simply adopted a new norm, a new role to play: lusty, busty exhibitionist. There are other choices.
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What a woman was criticized for doing yesterday she is ridiculed for not doing today. - Edith Wharton, 1915
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Raunch culture, then, isn't an entertainment option, it's a litmus test of female uptightness.
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Hefner said that he wouldn't mind if his daughter, Christie, then fourteen, appeared in Playboy one day; "I would consider it a compliment to me and my work." But again, he would want that to be a show of sexiness, not an indication of an unbridled sexuality like his own. "I wouldn't like my daughter to have a promiscuous life. I would not like my daughter to be immoral."
Ewww
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It's in fashion, and it is something that has traditionally appealed exclusively to men and actively offended women, so producing it or participating in it is a way both to flaunt your coolness and to mark yourself as different, tough, looser, funnier - a new sort of loophole woman who is "not like other women," who is instead "like a man."
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It can be fun to feel exceptional - to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.
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For understandable reasons, our overwhelming focus on teen sexuality in the wake of AIDS has been on danger and "risk behavior." Tolman writes that "this tendency, an artifact of public policy and funded research geared toward avoiding the risks of sexuality, leads us to single out girls as the receptacle of our concerns."
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...about a quarter of girls between ages fifteen and nineteen describe their first time as "voluntary but unwanted," according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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We have simply adopted a new norm, a new role to play: lusty, busty exhibitionist. There are other choices.