Writer's mid-2nd essay slack-off thread. Topic: 20 year-old sexual "liberation." DISCUSS!

[Writer]

Okay, here goes:

I am absolutely SHOCKED by how often I hear the younger set (especially young women in their 20's) flippantly talk about "hooking up" with guys in completely meaningless fuck-buddy sessions. I know this isn't anything new, but I'm surprised by how open young women are about this. It seems that feminist empowerment has attained a certain sexual liberation that doesn't mean merely being open to exploring oneself fully - but having little qualms with using men in the same manner as men use women, not to mention sleeping their way up the ladder. It's like Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, and Lipstick Jungle rolled into one for these young women.

Let me give you an example: Earlier this week I was sitting reading a magazine in one of our school's reading areas. Two undergrads entered and started chatting about internships. One of them - a cute blonde - said that she did in internship in California and that it went "very well for her" because - and I'm not making this up - "because I wore short skirts and high heels and people thought I was really cute." Now I'm in the journalism school of a major research university. What I heard FLOORED me. If I had said something like this to someone back in the 90's at U. Texas, a posse of feminists would have KICKED MY ASS!!!

(A part of me wanted to kick the blonde's ass, too, but I digress...)

What kind of low self-respect does that girl have for herself? The sad truth is that she's playing into exactly how the system is set-up. Women still haven't achieved merit-based equality at work with men, and the fuck-for-bucks system, especially with the young women, is still in full swing. Not many women actually do that, of course, and I know that many successful women attain their positions through hard work and brilliance... but this experience, and the situation I've personally been exposed to at the same school, has been eye-opening to me.

So... :wtf: is this??? Has feminism REGRESSED?

DISCUSS!

[Mari333]

1. Naw. I remember girls like this back in the 70s when I was in college.

every generation has them. :)
I can compare, somewhat, the rise of feminism thru the last 50 yrs from decade to decade, and it has its flows and ebbs, but always seems to be moving forward. Compared to the 50s, when I grew up, things have changed decidedly for the better.
(you had to have been there,oy vey)
sadly enough, we still live in a very superficial society that sends shallow messages to young people that they can gain access to power in their lives merely by adorning themselves to fit some preconceived stereotype that sells.
and yes, she is playing into the system thats set up. she is going to feel very foolish when she gets older, i promise you.
someday, I hope people will evolve where we dont need those systems.
change comes slowly.
hugs