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Author: Ariel Levy
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Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply
We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted.
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Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women
Objectification is rooted in disrespect, condescending views of the opposite gender, and power struggles. When men realize that they have the capability to fundamentally respect women, and women realize that they have the power to present themselves as empowered, fully capable people, raunch culture may moan its last and final faked orgasm.
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Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply
Writing was the solution to every problem.
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Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply
To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life.
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Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply
People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.
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Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply
There was a corresponding orbit of moods this obligatory food preparation induced in my mother: no-nonsense competence, spunky pride, and seething resentment.
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Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply
I got married a few years later-we all did. As we reached our thirtieth birthdays, my friends and I were like kernels of popcorn exploding in a pot: First one, then another, and pretty soon we were all bursting into matrimony. There were several years of peace, but then the pregnancies started popping. I found this unsettling."
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Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women
I was standing in the shower the other day, picking up my shampoo," she said. "It's called 'Dumb Blonde.' I thought, Thirty years ago you could not have sold this. I think we have lost consciousness of the way our culture demeans women.
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Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women
The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't.
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Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women
New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish "women's work" from real careers.
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Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply
We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers, we want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, cosiness and thrills, but we can't have it all.
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Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women
It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.
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