tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post2275193782826303930..comments2023-04-03T04:00:20.248-07:00Comments on figuring it out...: Female Chauvinist PigsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-10052624379691617402008-01-20T19:45:00.000-08:002008-01-20T19:45:00.000-08:00another part that really stuck out to me was the s...another part that really stuck out to me was the section about Amanda Beard (olympic gold medalist) who went on to pose in playboy and FHM. Levy made the comment that with our current cultures view of women, perhaps Beard thought posing nude in such magazines was scoring even higher than getting the gold. <BR/><BR/>Beard's nude modeling stint is discussed more in depth in <A HREF="http://Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17137757234906638603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-71240592968838732172008-01-18T23:27:00.000-08:002008-01-18T23:27:00.000-08:00G,I thought that Levy's book was much-needed too. ...G,<BR/>I thought that Levy's book was much-needed too. I really like the bit you quote about raunch culture not being progressive, but rather being commercial. That seems so true, that the push to get women to disrobe to prove their liberation is a moneymaking enterprise before anything else, even if it tries to sell itself as somehow progressive.<BR/><BR/>Another point I recall liking that she Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4319139334819650146.post-13049321568715232502008-01-17T10:29:00.000-08:002008-01-17T10:29:00.000-08:00Alistiar and I were just discussing this the other...Alistiar and I were just discussing this the other day over a Victoria's Secret catalog. He had commented that one model's breasts were too big, so I showed him that same model in another pose that he had said he liked. He hadn't even recognized that it was the same woman. We had a long discussion about how manufactured the beauty industry is. How so much of it is artificial, and yet Lessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741982738892350097noreply@blogger.com