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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brazilianwaxes; femalecircumcision; fembot; historicalpubichair; janetrenodanceparty; libertinehedonists; pinupgirls; plasticsurgery; popculture; radicalfeminism; sexymaddyalbright; svedkavodka; womensmovement
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To: Xenalyte
Someone please help me out, because I'm gonna shave my legs when I get in the tub in a little while, and I'd hate to think that I'm just a tool of the male corporate oppressor patriarchy.

I suppose when the hippie chicks stopped taking baths and were to lazy to shave. (and the hippie dudes did the same... shaving their faces, that is).

41 posted on 01/01/2006 2:44:21 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: presidio9

That chick better watch out . . . she has those dimples that signal the beginning of back fat.

Trust me. I know whereof I speak.


42 posted on 01/01/2006 2:44:41 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Old Seadog

I think it's a particular type of shaving in the genital area. I don't know either.


43 posted on 01/01/2006 2:46:13 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Xenalyte
Trust me. I know whereof I speak.

You're killing the visual.

44 posted on 01/01/2006 2:46:23 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9
Women in the fire department:
45 posted on 01/01/2006 2:48:40 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: Old Seadog
What is a Brazilian wax?

Okay, I just went and looked it up.

It's when all your pubic hair is removed. Also known as a bald bush.

46 posted on 01/01/2006 2:49:17 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: presidio9

47 posted on 01/01/2006 2:51:51 PM PST by perfect stranger
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To: ClearCase_guy
And women didn't need men to fix a flat tire:
48 posted on 01/01/2006 2:52:08 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: presidio9
Even women teamsters:
49 posted on 01/01/2006 2:53:32 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: presidio9
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.

I think Maureen Dowd brought up something similar. It's as if the feminists are standing around, shuffling their feet, crying, "We had no idea this would happen!" I have no sympathy for them. They created a generation of oversexed vixens that don't seem to realize that they are debasing themselves. It's not all the feminists' fault as lots of factos have influenced our debauchery, but they did help set the table.

50 posted on 01/01/2006 2:57:55 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: School of Rational Thought

Yikes!


51 posted on 01/01/2006 2:58:02 PM PST by perfect stranger
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To: ClearCase_guy
And before Danica Patrick ever drew a breath:
52 posted on 01/01/2006 2:58:14 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The Feminists took it all away.

I am a woman and I agree totally

Although with the right thinking man, there still can be good times for a woman

53 posted on 01/01/2006 2:58:19 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: School of Rational Thought

Don't forget defending our country.

54 posted on 01/01/2006 2:58:42 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9

Easy. TEACH THE BOYS TO SAY NO. A girl cannot even GIVE IT AWAY if the boys don't take it.

And for girl/girl sex.... teach girls the same thing - so say NO, No, No, to 'experimentation.'

And the same dog-gone thing for boy/boy sex.

And the first bit of advice (top line) came from a boys gym teacher.... Who was straight, happily married, father of girls and boys. I do not think that even in his nightmares he ever envisioned having to tell his students how to handle lines 2 and 3. (Sigh.) Of course, this was in the mid-60's....


55 posted on 01/01/2006 2:59:22 PM PST by silverspurs
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To: ClearCase_guy

To expand on that analogy, Victorianism died for good when the genie got web access.


56 posted on 01/01/2006 3:00:22 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9
"Today, many of that generation's granddaughters are getting... Brazilian waxes"

Damnable Bush haters !

57 posted on 01/01/2006 3:00:26 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: presidio9

Now she might look nice on my gas tank.


58 posted on 01/01/2006 3:02:22 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: Lizavetta

It's actually a complete removal of all hair below the ears. Pedophiles just love it.


59 posted on 01/01/2006 3:02:47 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Xenalyte
"...and I'd hate to think that I'm just a tool of the male corporate oppressor patriarchy."

Naw........just hot.

60 posted on 01/01/2006 3:03:16 PM PST by RightOnline
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