Via Vinayak from Sulekha, here’s a hard hitting article aptly entitled Slut Feminism.
Unlike most of my female college classmates, I was never a fan of the show Sex and the City. My roommates would rent the videos and buy cheap champagne and watch them. I watched the show with them one night. After barely stomaching two episodes, I declared the show would be better titled “Sluts and the City” and then went to bed. I wish other students had followed my lead. Instead, they chose to usher in a new wave of feminism: Slut feminism, where how openly promiscuous a woman can be without judgment or penalty is the new test of gender equality. [...] From Cornell University’s Cornellingus, to Princeton’s Vulvagraphy, and Yale’s Sex and the Elm City, it seems that the Ivy League isn’t immune to this trend, either. The so-called “best and the brightest” are becoming the best and the brightest of the porn industry. Last month, in Cornell University’s column, the author explained how she could get more sexual pleasure alone from herself than she could with from a man. In Princeton’s column, they compare a woman’s intimate anatomy with a Timex watch, writing, “they can take a licking and keep on ticking.” It’s good to see that an awesome educational opportunity such as studying at one of the most prestigious schools in the country isn’t going to waste. How proud their parents will be when they start their careers writing for the pages of Playboy.
As Vinayak says,
India is fast following. America is an opinion leader now - at least In India. What happens today in America is soon to be followed in India - say a few years later
Read the full piece.
Tags: Society & Culture
From the article: With the help of organizations like the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, they can bring conservative women leaders, like Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, or Phyllis Schlafly, to their schools to challenge this type of thinking.
About Phyllis Schlafly
About Michelle Malkin (Columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan gives out the parody Malkin Award for what Sullivan believes is “cliché-ridden writing from the left and right intended to insult.”)
About Ann Coulter
Funny how all these seem to be ultra-conservative right-wing women.
I understand the part about the ivy league scandalous behavior…but leave the goddamn show alone. Why doesn’t this so-called ‘conservative’ rambler read the biography of the author? Ever hear him rambling about the countless men out there and their media henchmen who declare how they are ’studs’ and show their ‘mardaangi’. Which brings me to the central question…why is it considered macho for men to be promiscuous but slutty for women? get a fucking life for christ’s sake…focus on ur own countrys problems first…imported from america?? how is tht?? oh yes..treat college students like children (dont go out after 8 pm…no laptops (changing now), no internet, no friends staying over)…
Alright thats enough for me for the moment.
For clarification…the rant was against the author not you Sandeep. You rule
Ciao
Ok turns out im an idiot….bah..shoot me…i thought the author was an Indian…free condoms neone?
The author is correct the reply is flawed. Men were never considered “studs” if they were promiscuous. That is a flawed premise to excuse bad behavior by women. Men who slept around were ostracized by other women and called “player” “misogynist” and “womanizer.” The sistahood would spread the word and this “stud” would be like a leaper among their friends. So now women do this in return and it’s ok? It’s just a double standard that women use to excuse their sluttines. Plus it’s different when a man sleeps around. A woman is more likely to get diseased(American women are the most diseased in the world with STD’s) and they can get pregnant. We have a forty percent single parent household here in the US. So much for women’s liberation!
Um, men are called womanizers if they sleep around, but the stigma against male promiscuity is nowhere near as bad as the stigma against female promiscuity. I think promiscuity is unwise, whether it’s male or female. And I think it is stupid that some feminists say “If men can sleep around, we should be able to, too.” Nobody should do it.