Chicks Dig Porn
Earlier this month, Acculturated ran two stories back to back on the same day. In one, a Christian photographer debated the use of the female form as art. The other article examined the lack of mainstream media outrage when Republican women are sexually smeared (think Miley as Michele on SNL). Pondering why some of the greatest European and African nations have powerful females in government, the author of said article concluded: "Maybe the reason America doesn’t have more women in public life is because here we are all sluts...." Whether we're objets d'art or whores, women have lost their cultural standing as human beings in America.
And considering there's way more of us than men in America, I'm tending to think a good chunk of our bad rap is our fault.
We're the demographic who turned a porno fanfiction into a record-breaking blockbuster hit overnight. Yep, you can't blame those fantasy weirdos anymore for skewing reading stats: Fifty Shades of Grey has outdone the Harry Potter series in sales thanks to female readers.
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"Cosmopolitan put female sexuality right out there on the front page, where everyone could see it at the grocery store. People could no longer pretend that it didn't exist."
Be proud, ladies: You made that happen. And now chick mags like Marie Claire can run articles ranking the best porn sites for women right alongside tips on nail polish and news on celebrity fashion. Nothing says "we have arrived" better than surfing sites that "might make R. Kelly a little uncomfortable."
Feminism is based in phallocentrism. The idea that men derive all of their power from being men (a.k.a. wielding a penis) forces feminists into vagina-centrism, resulting in the notion that our sexuality is the sole source of our power. Therefore it should come as no surprise that when a female politician is hated, she is obviously a "whore." Likewise, when an artist seeks to capture the female image, it is presumably in order to draw attention to her sexual power.
Earlier this month, Acculturated ran two stories back to back on the same day. In one, a Christian photographer debated the use of the female form as art. The other article examined the lack of mainstream media outrage when Republican women are sexually smeared (think Miley as Michele on SNL). Pondering why some of the greatest European and African nations have powerful females in government, the author of said article concluded: "Maybe the reason America doesn’t have more women in public life is because here we are all sluts...." Whether we're objets d'art or whores, women have lost their cultural standing as human beings in America.
And considering there's way more of us than men in America, I'm tending to think a good chunk of our bad rap is our fault.
We're the demographic who turned a porno fanfiction into a record-breaking blockbuster hit overnight. Yep, you can't blame those fantasy weirdos anymore for skewing reading stats: Fifty Shades of Grey has outdone the Harry Potter series in sales thanks to female readers.
50 SOG has become such a media phenom that I've even seen women—and it's always women—unabashedly reading it in paperback in Starbucks, showing off its distinctive black and white cover. It's the fact that it's a media phenom that makes this OK, of course. ...Still, you won't see people, or men, cracking open "The Story of O" or "Penthouse Forum" in public anytime soon. With 50SOG, you can still claim you're reading it for ironic hipster reasons.
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"Cosmopolitan put female sexuality right out there on the front page, where everyone could see it at the grocery store. People could no longer pretend that it didn't exist."
Be proud, ladies: You made that happen. And now chick mags like Marie Claire can run articles ranking the best porn sites for women right alongside tips on nail polish and news on celebrity fashion. Nothing says "we have arrived" better than surfing sites that "might make R. Kelly a little uncomfortable."
Feminism is based in phallocentrism. The idea that men derive all of their power from being men (a.k.a. wielding a penis) forces feminists into vagina-centrism, resulting in the notion that our sexuality is the sole source of our power. Therefore it should come as no surprise that when a female politician is hated, she is obviously a "whore." Likewise, when an artist seeks to capture the female image, it is presumably in order to draw attention to her sexual power.