Salon.com currently features an article about straight girls making out with each other to impress (and seduce) guys. The mostly-critical article points out the obvious problems with this trend, yet oddly enough, still glorifies it as a right-of-passage for the coolest of American high school students. The article is worth a read, especially because it gets inside the head of some sexually-uninhibited, heteroflexible girls.
(Annoyingly, to read the article, you first have to watch a little commercial. The one I was subject to instructed you on how to trick your husband into taking you to Las Vegas to go shopping. What joy.)
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Welcome to the blog, Sarah!
A lot of this has come up in discussions of Ariel Levy's book, "Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture." I haven't read the book so I can't comment on it, but I did read an interesting article today that adds some nuance to the debate over so-called raunch culture (and I bet girls kissing girls to get free beer from boys at a party would fall under Levy's definition of raunch). The article is here: http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/bo....
Posted by Nicole
June 23, 2006, 12:30 PM
Ariel Levy is awesome. FCP I really dug...i think its out in paperback soon too. She writes some great pieces for New York magazine as well. definitely worth checking out. www.newyorkmag.com
Seems like raunch culture spreading more and more lately though. Do you have a chain of bars called "Cowgirls INC." in Canada? i'm in seattle and the whole coyote ugly raunch thing started infecting itself here...
Posted by 206
June 27, 2006, 2:46 AM
I don't know if Canada has Cowgirls INC., but we are the country that brought you Vice Magazine. 'Nuff said.
Posted by Anna
June 27, 2006, 9:51 AM
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