{"id":107,"date":"2007-05-23T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2007-05-23T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T22:06:00","slug":"latest-on-boob-flashing-choice-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/05\/23\/latest-on-boob-flashing-choice-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest on Boob-Flashing “Choice” Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since I use “Grrls Gone Wild” in my subtitle, I keep getting asked what I think about Girls (minus the rr, which has a whole ‘nother meaning) Gone Wild. Here tis: To my mind, slinking around a pole or writing about it is not the pinnacle of real-world empowerment, but nor are the women who do so and feel empowered being duped. I have no doubt that the women who flash their boobs for the camera on GGW feel powerful. In many ways, they epitomize the dilemma of our (Gen X *and* Y) generation: caught between the hope of a world that no longer degrades women and the reality of a culture that is still degrading. It’s confusing to be girl these days–or for that matter, a lady–in a world only half-transformed.<\/p>\n

But for much more on the subject, check out this piece by Lisa Jervis<\/a> on Girls Gone Wild as symptom of our culture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stunted view of female sexuality. Jervis is responding to Garance Franke-Ruta’s proposal<\/a> to curb young women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s participation in these televised boob-flashing-fests. With characteristic savvy, Jervis writes:<\/p>\n

The trick is to help young women navigate and respond to the barrage without patronizing, faux-feminist posturing; reinforcing outdated virgin-whore ideas about what kinds of girls lift their tops; sighing over the outlandish behavior of kids today; or discounting or denying girls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 behavior as simple false consciousness\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall of which is happening way too much, both in feminist circles and elsewhere. If we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t widen our analytic lens enough to see this, then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be stuck in Joe Francis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I use “Grrls Gone Wild” in my subtitle, I keep getting asked what I think about Girls (minus the rr, which has a whole ‘nother meaning) Gone Wild. Here tis: To my mind, slinking around a pole or writing about it is not the pinnacle of real-world empowerment, but nor are the women who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,21804],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intergenerational","tag-sisterhood-is"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}