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Female Chauvinist Pigs By Ariel Levy

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In female chauvinist pigs written by Ariel levy. She explains the idea of women who are called female chauvinist pigs and the rise of raunch culture. And there is no denying that raunch is everywhere in our culture today. We live in an era where “the American mass culture has framed the game so perversely that young women now strive to be the “hottest” and “sexiest” girl they know rather than the most accomplished”. In this essay, Ariel levy talks about the raunch culture of today’s world where it is mainly focused on the sex appeal of women and how many women take off their clothes, as well as how many women today want to be like men (think like men). Levy theorizes “many women internalize the objectifying male gaze that permeates a raunch culture, leading them to participate in self-objectification quite willingly, falsely believing that it is a form of female empowerment and sexual liberation”. And an example of that would be where she is talking to a girl named anyssa and anyssa says “I could never be a stripper myself, but I think it would be so sexually liberating”. In my opinion how does a female feel sexually liberated by pole dancing in front of many men and women who throw dollar bills at them? Many examples of the raunch culture would be, playboy the magazine that features many naked women, the man show where the women were seen as sexual objects, stripping which is idealized as empowering and liberating by many women, and girls gone wild where many young

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