In a review of “Female Chauvinist Pigs” for the New York Times, author Jennifer Egan wrote:
“Our popular culture has embraced a model of female sexuality that comes straight from pornography and strip clubs, in which the woman’s job is to excite and titillate — to perform for men.”
Girls have bought into the idea that our objectification is empowering; that looking sleazy is liberating. Sexualizing ourselves for attention and playing an active role in our objectification, will not lead to equality between the sexes. Increased objectification only furthers inequality.
Girls Gone Wild, sexting, stripper poles at parties and bars, glamorizing the lives of girls who pose naked, and treating them as celebrities, and other trends of this sort do not further the equality of women. Especially when it’s almost exclusively women who are portraying themselves this way.
Women should enjoy their sexuality in a responsible, self respecting way, because it’s pleasurable, not because it gets them attention. It’s negative attention. Women we need to stop encouraging and engaging in our own objectification. The ability to get sexual attention is not what we should be striving for. Strive for respect, influence, positive attention from quality people, longterm success and happiness. If you want to be noticed or want to look beautiful, be beautiful, but do it in a respectable way that gives you the attention of quality people.
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I certainly agree with you on the unfortunate confusion that came out of many third wave commentators, which was really just a rationale for acting slutty.
Indeed, that development helped make the case of those who have argued that feminism is really the final product of the patriarchy–and an argument that I feel actually does have some merit. http://bit.ly/HaZbA
Pop culture proves that women can gain more respect, power and influence by rejecting Girls Gone Wild–look at the difference between Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus, who has lost almost all influence just because she chose to do a pole dance in short shorts.
On the other hand, I think there is nothing wrong with a woman using her sexuality to get something (generally money), so long as she knows what she is doing–but just don’t try and call it feminism. Examples of this are obvious–Paris Hilton, strippers, prostitutes.
I do think, if it is done right, sexist objectivism can even be used to promote women’s issues–in order to do that they need to take a page out of the early gay rights movement–the sexist objectivism needs to be done in a sardonic manner. Today I mentioned the Ukrainian women’s group FEMEN on my Facebook page— they do this well. http://bit.ly/CIZQx
And that is something that can, and is done, on an individual basis–I am reminded of the time Carly Fiorina appeared before the testosterone soaked Hewellet Packard Board, with a sock stuffed in her crotch–it won over the guys–but also made a point of what pricks they are.
Thanks for your comment. You make some good points. Thanks for the links. I was trying to look at your blog, but couldn’t get into it. Is it public?