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Reality Television. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. By Ariel Levy. Have we all bought into the idea that “everyone who is sexually liberated ought to be imitating strippers and porn stars”?. Women flash Girls Gone Wild “for the brand” association
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Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture By Ariel Levy
Have we all bought into the idea that “everyone who is sexually liberated ought to be imitating strippers and porn stars”?
Women flash Girls Gone Wild “for the brand” association Exposing themselves to GGW because of social pressure? GGW looking for “real” women: “You know, 100 to 110 pounds, big boobs, blonde, blue eyes, ideally no piercing or tattoos” (Levy). Show me your boobs!
Female Olympic athletes in Playboy Victoria’s Secret Dating reality shows Plastic surgery “make-overs” Music videos and concerts Exhibitionism is running wild . . .
Passion isn’t the point “Hotness” has become cultural currency Raunch culture is not progressive, it is commercial Sexy = worthwhile
“I was paid to” is not the same thing as “I’m taking control of my sexuality”
Packaging Boyhood: Saving our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and other Media Stereotypes by Brown, Lamb & Tappan
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketer’s Schemes by Brown & Lamb
Make your Own Reality Show! Consider the “highlights” of our class and how you’d edit our experience as if it were a reality show. How would you amp up the drama? How would it stray from “reality”?