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[wasabi_poptart]

I find certain aspects of Female Chauvinist Pigs deeply troubling.

The way bois are depicted is just awful. My own experience with bois is limited to having my cigarettes lit by their Zippos during Pride, but Levy makes them sound sexist beyond anything that does have a biological penis.

Also, is high school culture really as bad as she makes it out to be, with video clips of girls fellating Swiffer handles being posted onto Friendster and whatnot? I can't even imagine.

I don't know how true all this is, not moving in such circles, but the picture this book paints is dark and bleak.

I haven't finished it yet, and I don't know if it's going to come to this conclusion, but it seems to me that the fundamental principle that is lacking here is R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Comments

[sarahmarvelous.livejournal.com]

I take any description of adolescent behavior by adults with a grain of salt- you just can't trust that they understand the culture. Just think about the things your peers did as a teen to shock their parents and push the envelope. I'm not saying that stuff doesn't go on, I think there's a lot of raunchy sex in high school today. But I know how much sensationalism was going on around Grunge when I was in high school, and how little of it parents really needed to worry about.

But maybe I'm wrong and there's a whole generation of porn stars in training out there, spreading STDs and shooting heroine and shooting up their high school.

[emily-hahn.livejournal.com]

But maybe I'm wrong and there's a whole generation of porn stars in training out there, spreading STDs and shooting heroine and shooting up their high school.

I kind of doubt that - aren't there also sensationalistic news stories also about how the Millenials (as I always hear them called working in a predominantly undergrad institution) are also embracing evangelical Christianity/fundamentalism with a fervor not found in previous generations? Without any actual real statistical data, I'd be inclined to dismiss most of what's been said as anecdotal. That plus I know Mishymisu just read this book and dismissed it as Women's Studies lite - not to mention the highest praise I've read was Wendy "A Return To Modesty" Shallit's review in the Wall Street Journal.

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

hee. Wendy Shallit. Now that's comedy!