Dan’s Blog

I recently finished reading Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy, and I was impressed enough that I wrote a review of it, which I posted on Amazon.com. And now I’m posting it here:

Female Chauvinist Pigs is really about two things: sexual pleasure and freedom. Specifically, Levy wants to know why “post-feminist” freedom and sexuality — epitomized by Girls Gone Wild, Playboy bunnies, and the glorification of porn stars and strippers — looks so much like its opposite: a pre-feminist world in which women try their damnedess to please their partners (or crowds, or video cameras) without a strong sense of their own sexual desires.
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