Feminism and raunch culture

Recently, a type of feminism has emerged which gives females consent to do anything they please because nothing has meaning and moral codes can always be ignored because they are socially constructed.

In Australia, this position is advocated by academics such as Associate Professor Catharine Lumby, Director of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, who seems to believe Big Brother is legitimate art and that the shameless performances of certain contestants is fine because that is what people do.

A pragmatist would support a woman’s right to choose the clothes she wants to wear, whilst understanding that there is a reaction to every action and wearing “f*ck-me” shoes gets an obvious one regardless of what theorists claim.

Alarmingly, one of those strong impressions one gets from perusing Levy’s book is that women who get off on “raunch” seem to be doing it to obtain power over, and get back at, men.

Liberal attitudes might ensure girls will be over dressing outrageously by the time they turn 18 because we all grow out of certain things, but their self-perceptions and the way males view them could be damaged in the meantime.

Another one of Levy’s interviewees is quoted thus:

For me it’s all attached to guys. Like I have this weird link between certain guys and my own self-worth … I always feel like if I can wear something that he likes or if I can be really thin or I can do certain things to my physical appearance, he’ll like me more.