Female Chauvenist Pigs - A Must-Read

Wow, talk about taking a long break from posting anything on here. Sorry about that. Would just like to point out to everyone that I've added a nifty java-enabled link to my flickr.com pictures. Just check out the right hand column. (If you don't see anything, please let me know!)

Anyway, I just want to recommend a book that I finished reading...enhaled is more like it. Female Chauvenist Pigs: Women and the Rise in Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy. The book certainly isn't for the faint of heart or those who can't bear to hear sexually graphic language. It's straightfoward and in-your-face-honesty, and it isn't squeamish to use precise language.

Before I get all off on a tangent, let me explain what this book is all about by sharing two of the reviews on its back cover.

With FCP, Ariel Levy becomes feminism's newest and most provocative voice, brilliantly laying bare the contradictions and evasions and self-deceptions that pass for empowerment. - Malcomn Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point

Ariel Levy has given us an important, lively, shocking investigative report about how and why - in an age of HIV?AIDS and religious fundamentalism - U.S. commercialism has mainstreamed pornography, popularized raunch images (and practices), and revived female 'bimbo' roles. This is a call to arms for women and girls who are being sold pseudo empowerment, phony liberation, and fake rebellion - instead of the realy thinkg: freedom. A must-read for young women - and everyone else. - Robin Morgan

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READ THIS BOOK! Click on the link/post's title to head to amazon.com to buy it!