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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women

    Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland…those are the games men play. We see it differently. We want to be neither oppressor nor oppressed.
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  7. Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women

    Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and-necessarily-that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.
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  8. Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women

    Behind the bar, tall females in white feathered tops danced on poles, their faces set in masks of lascivious contempt. Keith Blanchard, then Maxim's editor-in-chief, told me, "It's a sexy night!" To me, "sexy" is based on the inexplicable overlap of character and chemicals that happens between people…the odd sense that you have something primal in common with another person whom you may love, or you may barely even like, that can only be expressed through the physical and psychological exchange that is sex. When I'm in the plastic "erotic" world of high, hard tits and long nails and incessant pole dancing-whether I'm at a CAKE party, walking past a billboard of Jenna Jameson in Times Square, or dodging pillows at the Maxim Hot 100-I don't feel titillated or liberated or aroused. I feel bored, and kind of tense.
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  9. Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women

    I had occasion to talk to Erica Jong, one of the most famous sex-positive feminists-"one of the most interviewed people in the world," as she's put it-on the thirtieth anniversary of her novel Fear of Flying. "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." She was quick to tell me that she "wouldn't pass a law against the product or call the PC police." But, she said, "let's not kid ourselves that this is liberation. The women who buy the idea that flaunting your breasts in sequins is power-I mean, I'm for all that stuff-but let's not get so into the tits and ass that we don't notice how far we haven't come. Let's not confuse that with real power. I don't like to see women fooled.
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  10. Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women

    The idea that sex can be reduced to fixed components as it is in pornography-blow job, doggie style, money shot, girl-on-girl-is adolescent: first base, second base, all the way. It is ironic that we think of this as adult entertainment. I don't see why we should regard porn as a way to enjoy "sexuality in all of its explicitness" any more than we consider looking at a chart of the food pyramid to be a feast.
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  11. Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women

    What teens have to work with, then, are two wildly divergent messages. They live in a candyland of sex…every magazine stand is a gumdrop castle of breasts, every reality show is a bootylicious Tootsie Roll tree. And these are hormonal teenagers: This culture speaks to them. But at school, the line given to the majority of them about sex is just say no. They are taught that sex is wrong until you have a wedding {they have seen those in the magazines and on the reality shows too, huge affairs that require boatloads of Casablanca lilies and mountains of crystal}, and then suddenly it becomes natural and nice. If you process this information through the average adolescent mental computer, you end up with a printout that reads something like this: Girls have to be hot. Girls who aren't hot probably need breast implants. Once a girl is hot, she should be as close to naked as possible all the time. Guys should like it. Don't have sex.
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  12. Ariel Levy _ Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women

    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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