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From women's lib to 'Girls Gone Wild'
Minneapolis (Red) Star Tribune ^ | January 1, 2006 | Kristin Tillotson

Posted on 01/01/2006 2:13:40 PM PST by presidio9

Current ads for Svedka Vodka feature a fembot made of steel, sporting a curvy backside and a come-hither posture. "The future of adult entertainment," reads the tag line.

There's something deeply disturbing about these ads. It's not the animatron with the blank, moldable expression; she's merely a video-game version of the inflatable sex dolls guys get at stag parties. What's so unsettling is that the tag line could very well be right.

Thirty-odd years ago, women across the United States burned their bras and carried picket signs advocating free love and the Equal Rights Amendment. Today, many of that generation's granddaughters are getting breast implants and Brazilian waxes, and their idea of sexual freedom is flashing and making out with each other for free in "Girls Gone Wild" videos.

When Erica Jong and Nancy Friday exhorted 1970s women to throw off Victorian mores like so many petticoats and pursue their own guilt-free sexual pleasure, they probably couldn't have envisioned that porn-star biographies would become best-sellers, or that teen girls would be taking pole-dance aerobics classes.

From hip-hop culture, where the boys drape themselves in long sleeves and baggy pants while the girls wear the equivalent of sequined Post-it notes, to the retro chic of Playboy and the proliferation of lad mags such as Maxim and Stuff, nearly every subcategory of post-feminist pop culture has seemed to work against the de-Bunnyization of women. When protests arise, young eyes glaze over; the naysayers are sooo uptight and out of touch.

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If you have a repressive society like ours right now, we can all manage to turn our attention to gay marriage. If you have a country this panicked about that, you can't say we're libertine hedonists."

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(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brazilianwaxes; femalecircumcision; fembot; historicalpubichair; janetrenodanceparty; libertinehedonists; pinupgirls; plasticsurgery; popculture; radicalfeminism; sexymaddyalbright; svedkavodka; womensmovement
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To: presidio9

I have to disagree with the article. It certainly isn't mutilation they are performing. I'm generally a big believer in living with what God gave ya, but if a woman wants vaginal rejuvenation I'm all for their right to choose.


101 posted on 01/01/2006 9:17:16 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

All I know is if I put on a tie without shaving, my neck hairs tend to become ingrown. I can't even imagine ingrown hairs in my nether regions. I scratch myself in public enough as it is.


102 posted on 01/01/2006 9:18:55 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Mr. Blonde; Clemenza

Tell her to stay away from Sonny Corleone and she won't have that problem.


103 posted on 01/01/2006 9:19:48 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: KneelBeforeZod

104 posted on 01/01/2006 9:24:33 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9

LOL!!


105 posted on 01/01/2006 9:28:08 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Old Seadog

Does the saying "you aint got a hair on your a$$...." man anything to you?


106 posted on 01/01/2006 9:37:54 PM PST by Delta 21 (MKC USCG-ret)
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To: Delta 21

LOL!!


107 posted on 01/01/2006 9:54:58 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: oneofmany
All this is a direct result of liberalism in the 60's. In the article she blames it on red state conservatives. These people kill me.

And it was purposeful with malice aforethought. It was all part of the big leftist push to transform our society, and then our government, into a collective with little value for the individual.

First, the society must be divided into opposing groups. Feminism divides men and women; "civil rights" and affirmative action divides the races; welfare and high taxes divide rich and poor; unions divide management and labor; the gay agenda divides us along sexual orientation lines.

That makes it convenient for the left to take the side of the "oppressed" groups they created. With enough oppressed groups political power is assured.

There is more but that is enough for now.

108 posted on 01/01/2006 10:18:35 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
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109 posted on 01/02/2006 1:11:04 AM PST by milemark (Proud to be an infidel.)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

Bingo! And you summarized it very well, I might add.


110 posted on 01/02/2006 6:20:09 AM PST by oneofmany (ACLU,DEMS,MSM - Fifth Column)
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To: oneofmany

I knew we were on the same page but as old as it sounds to us we must keep saying it for the newly initiated.


111 posted on 01/02/2006 7:55:58 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: School of Rational Thought

From a laser hair removal website (edited to make it as G-rated as possible):

The Brazilian Bikini - leaves a vertical strip in front (landing strip).

The Sphinx (or the Full Bikini Wax) - It's all taken off. Everywhere. Everything. Bald.


112 posted on 01/02/2006 6:27:31 PM PST by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: presidio9

Fascinating stuff. Everything old is new again! Kind of like womens eyebrows. Shaved or plucked bare and NOT "penciled in" way back when was a status symbol. I believe the Brazilian started in Brazil (duh) with the popularity of the micro thong bikini years and years ago. NOTHING to hide in one of those. Sloooooowly made its way into America with porn stars, then in the late 1990's, early 2000's became more mainstream with my generation. The J. Sisters Salon in NYC has been doing Brazilians (and more) for years. Smaller salons in smaller cities have finally caught on.

The whole thing is conflicting. It's very uh, um, liberating. And it enhances, errr, uh, the act. No question there. However, when will it end with what women (speaking in generalities here) are expected to do to themselves to be considered sexually attractive? Brazilians and Sphynxs are somewhat painful, time-consuming, and expensive. Further, it basically removes one of the primary physical indicators of womanhood, leaving the area not unlike a pre-pubescent girl. EEK! Anyway, I'm rambling here, but feminist politics aside, I do recommend women try it at least once for fun.


113 posted on 01/02/2006 6:48:32 PM PST by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Once upon a time, women were seen as "different" from men. They were put on a pedestal. They were worshipped. They got special consideration. Those were good times for women.

The Feminists took it all away.

An old Italian guy once told me that "women weren't made to be understood. They were made to be loved.

The longer I live the wiser I think he was.

114 posted on 01/02/2006 7:10:45 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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