Female Chauvinist Pigs

  I really didn't have much to comment on this week so I went searching and found another book to mention instead.  It is Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.  I was first taken by the title (obviously!) and was surprised to see a book written by a woman, not just blaming the problem on men, but also asking what are women doing about it?

  "But just because we are post doesn't automatically mean we are feminists. There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda. It doesn't work that way. "Raunchy" and "liberated" are not synonyms. It is worth asking ourselves if this bawdy world of boobs and gams we have resurrected reflects how far we've come, or how far we have left to go." (Levy) 

  Levy brings an interesting point to the table in that just because the previous generations of women have fought for feministic rights does not mean that the latter generations will still keep them and their ideals true.  Many things have changed since then, but why is the idea of feminism so up in the air?  Have all that the prior generations of feminists fought for been lost on "powder puff" women whose main goal in life is to be as sexually appealing as humanly possible?  I sure hope not otherwise that leaves us in a dire state.

  This book is the first one in awhile that addresses the woman's role in keeping to these overly sexualized roles.  The question remaining is why since we've fought so hard, have we allowed regression?