Reddit mentions of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Sit down and give this book a read.

From a Salon.com article on the book:
>Ultimately, Female Chauvinist Pigs want power. They equate power with being like men, and being liked by men. They're the kind of girl who's always felt more comfortable with boys, who doesn't really like other girls. Raunch is one way for them to gain access to that circle of men and to separate themselves from other women. Annie, for instance, used to enjoy Howard Stern because "it's humor masking a pretty woman-hating thing -- which I've got a good amount of in me, I guess, because I take pleasure in it."
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>"Yeah, we're all women, but are we supposed to band together?" asks Anyssa. "Hell, no. I don't trust women."
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>Yet as Levy points out, being the exception that proves the rule -- the girl who gets raunch, who laughs at Howard Stern -- just means the rules are still intact. As long as "acting like a man" is valued, acting like a woman will be devalued. And regardless of how you understand gender, being a woman -- having breasts, bleeding once a month -- will be a handicap.

I'd recommend Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy.

It's know as internalized sexism. Those who express it are female chauvinist pigs.

I'd recommend Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs. It's an interesting view of how women are objectifying each other in the way men used to/still do. I also really enjoyed The Beauty Myth.

Thanks for joining the feminist side =D

EDIT: Spelling

this is a book!

I'm sorry, I got excited since I lhiterally just started reading it.

Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy

female chauvinist pigs is pretty good too. not too theoretical or deep but it captures modern american society pretty well.

I recently enjoyed Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs, and Manda Marcotte's It's a Jungle Out There, both of which were fast and enjoyable reads. Neither was too deep. I've liked Naomi Wolf in the past. etc etc

Recent research studies have concluded that women have a alternative sense of sexuality compared to men. Women have been prevented from claiming their sexuality through acts such as sex. So they've begun to relate to their sexuality through feeling sexy. This is why women are so willing to participate in what many people would think are ridiculous- Girls Gone Wild is one example. They "look for nothing by 9s and 10s" and they get plenty of them for nothing more than a girls gone wild hat or shirt.

Whether the women are exploited or not, it is an interesting example of the differing sexuality between men and women.
sources
http://www.amazon.com/Female-Chauvinist-Pigs-Raunch-Culture/dp/0743249895

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018563

Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs - ta da! Women are just as complicit as men are in propagating gender roles, though I don't agree with everything Levy argues.