Free Republic

Is modern social change a reflection of women’s new power? It remains a mystery what drives the ongoing ferment in Western societies. What explains the disorienting shift, in the last decade or so, toward policies and attitudes that—whether one likes them or not—would have been virtually unthinkable half a century ago? And how can we account for the wildfire contagion of the past year’s Great Awokening, with its strange scenes of penitence and violence? It is easy to make a list of plausible factors. Television, the Internet, and, more recently, Internet-based social media, have all accelerated social change. These technical...

I came within a patent leather inch of being naked on the Internet. Call it art or artifice, power or pornography. But a rose by any other name would still shed its petals. Forget the oiled tangles of silicon and vapid stares, the airbrushed affectations of lust and the dimpled green flesh of night-vision cameras. In a fringe industry increasingly open to barely-B-cups and tattoo-riddled skin, the Playboy bunny is a dying breed — and the feminists are burning more than their bras. At the root of it all is SuicideGirls.com, a site that, as musician Dave Grohl put it,...