Slut feminism

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/MoniqueEStuart/2005/12/24/180123.html

Sex and the City influences a new generation of college journalists

Dec 24, 2005

by Monique E. Stuart

Unlike most of my female college classmates, I was never a fan of the show Sex and the City. My roommates would rent the videos and buy cheap champagne and watch them. I watched the show with them one night. After barely stomaching two episodes, I declared the show would be better titled “Sluts and the City” and then went to bed. I wish other students had followed my lead.

Instead, they chose to usher in a new wave of feminism: Slut feminism, where how openly promiscuous a woman can be without judgment or penalty is the new test of gender equality. Wouldn’t the suffragettes be proud to see how far we have come?

Across the nation other female students were falling in love with the “slut feminism” that Carrie Bradshaw and her sex-obsessed cronies in Sex and the City epitomized.

Student newspapers across the country started running sex columns, featuring college women publicizing their sexual exploits just as the Carrie Bradshaw character publicized hers.

USA Today reported, “From ‘Between the Sheets’ at Tufts University near Boston to ‘Sex at the Beach’ at California State University in Long Beach…college students are talking about, dispensing tips and offering advice on sex, dating, sex, love, sex, relationships, sex and sex.” After doing some research, I found the topics a little more limited. Mostly written by women, the recurring theme seems to be the female anatomy, female orgasms, masturbation, and oral sex, which, thanks to Bill Clinton, isn’t considered sex, according to most of these students.

From Cornell University’s Cornellingus, to Princeton’s Vulvagraphy, and Yale’s Sex and the Elm City, it seems that the Ivy League isn’t immune to this trend, either. The so-called “best and the brightest” are becoming the best and the brightest of the porn industry. Last month, in Cornell University’s column, the author explained how she could get more sexual pleasure alone from herself than she could with from a man. In Princeton’s column, they compare a woman’s intimate anatomy with a Timex watch, writing, “they can take a licking and keep on ticking.”

It’s good to see that an awesome educational opportunity such as studying at one of the most prestigious schools in the country isn’t going to waste. How proud their parents will be when they start their careers writing for the pages of Playboy.

You can’t even judge them. In their moral relativist world, no one has the right to judge others.

In Columbia University’s sex column, Sexplorations, Miriam Datskosky explains why the all too common “walk of shame” shouldn’t be shameful at all. She argues that men and women should be able to go out and have sex whenever and with whoever they like, and when walking home the next morning—wearing the same clothes from the night before, their make-up smeared, and their hair a mess—they shouldn’t be judged. “It is not up to a random stranger to make you feel ashamed,” she declares. Moral relativism and the sexual revolution had a baby, and boy is it ugly!

She states, “Every single one of us has the right to choose. That right deserves respect.” Respecting someone’s right to choose to be promiscuous and respecting their actual choice to do so are two different things. I’m not advocating outlawing promiscuity, but I do support holding people morally responsible for their choices.

There’s not much parents can do, short of slapping a chastity belt onto their daughters and sewing their mouths shut. Most student newspapers are independently run. And any attempt to have these columns removed would certainly be met with accusations of censorship by students who have been so indoctrinated that they don’t understand obscenity is not protected by the Constitution. Students, on the other hand, do have some options at their disposal.

With the help of organizations like the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, they can bring conservative women leaders, like Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, or Phyllis Schlafly, to their schools to challenge this type of thinking.

For now, unfortunately, it seems that women are leading the charge of slut feminism, considering they are the only ones authoring these columns. But this shouldn’t be surprising when a play like The Vagina Monologues is being performed on almost 600 college campuses. The play’s main message is that women are nothing more than their sexual anatomy. Many students' parents, having come of age in the sixties, might be thrilled with what the seeds of their “sexual revolution” have finally come to reap. Sexual freedom has turned into sexual obsession - with perversion and promiscuity being applauded while morality and chastity are condemned. Female college students from the slut feminism camp have finally achieved equality with the men. It’s a shame, though, that they view equality as an equal number of notches on their belts.

Monique E. Stuart is Program Officer for the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.

Copyright © 2005 Townhall.com

My comments :
India is following fast . America is an opinion leader now - at least In India. What happens today in America is soon to be followed in India
amen !

U.S.A. gets noticed !

U.S.A. gets noticed !

Tug of war on 6th standard text books - California Version !!

Fact : California wanted to change its history text books for sixth grade.

Once every six years, the state of California reviews its books to add in new content and discard old, antiquated theories. That in itself is a lofty ideal, but little did the state realise that anything to do with Indian history would end up in endless debates and mud slinging !!

Now, Pro Hindu groups and Seculars are slugging it out !!

Seculars claim that Hindus (and Hindu groups in USA) are about to distort history, that these Hindu Groups were connected to Gujarat riots and so on and so forth. The so called "Pro Hindu groups" for their part claim that Romila Thapar and Micheal Witzel are India bashers and want to spoil India's image!!


Now consider the Backdrop :

Average Americans can hardly remember where India is!, let alone understand what Vedas are and what Ramayana stands for or what the History books are depicting of India

India as a superpower, as an IT giant, as a large consumer, as an ally to fight china, the rich, trusted version of India is praised endlessly by American media. Every other aspect of India is dumped by the same American media.

Reason : Americans understand money. PERIOD.

If India continues to grow monetarily and outperform others, Americans will understand us. Like women chasing the rich and famous, America will court a rich India. Else we would be dumped as we were for close to 60 years.

If that's HISTORY ! what about the Geography ?!

Half the Americans can't place India on a wall map - forget locating us on a pocket map. That ignorance / non chalance MAY be sort of understandable considering the way an average American lives. Indians of my generation didn't know much about Russian geography either, in spite of spending entire schooling days in the communist era, ruled by Congress and fed communist propaganda - a.k.a. Indian School curriculum of the last few decades

Additional Fact :

There are about 2 Million Indians in USA. That's the Sum Total of all Indians, secular, non secular, married to whites, children, oldies etc. etc. How many of them are school children and how many of them are affected by the said books ?? better not answer that question !!

I guess what happens in USA gets noticed and so is this textbook revision.

Anything related to Hinduism ends up in a big big debate with seculars on one side and so called "..Hindu lovers.." on the other side. These two form an interesting cocktail and has come together yet again.

Now please note that I am NOT taking sides here. I have great reverence for people like Vishal Aggarwal who have championed for textbook revision

The whole episode has left me perplexed.

I guess most of our problems would get debated thread bare and decided one way or other if the problems themselves were to be linked to United States of America...

What do you say ?

Is chastity necessary ? Is chastity a virtue or is it imposed on us ?

Is chastity necessary ? Is chastity a virtue or is it imposed on us ?

After a clash of civilizations, its a clash of the sexes !

After a clash of civilizations, its a clash of the sexes !

The question is not just about dowry laws but it relates to the complete degradation of masculinity and men in general.

The laws like 498A and the other laws relating to gender have been moulded in the favor of women and partially against the man only after a detailed and sustained attack on masculinity had been made.

For the past three decades there has been sustained attack on men and their sexuality. In the media and the other discussions men now see themselves portrayed as the worst kind if animals - ruthless, cruel, violent, substance abusive, sexually pervert and greedy creatures who are generally after "one thing". They are portrayed as ones who are constantly harming the women and children.Women and children need the protection from these cruel men.

So, Men and their masculine traits are in great dishonor. This is spreading all over the world. From the Serbian "rape camps", to the scourge of child sexual abuse, weekly accounts of the press on murder stories, men are seen as a problem which can be dealt only by some "special laws" similar to anti terrorist laws. The positive faces among men are somehow painted as non men or at least gender neutral, while all negatives are labeled as crime that "men" commit. This robs men of their position of pride and forces them to accept a position much inferior to their fair status.

The phenomenon had been worldwide and in India it started in seventies. The task before feminists in India was a tough one to start with. They first attacked Lord Ram and gave him a bad name, labeled him a cruel and insensitive husband. Many press articles debated on this matter of exile of Sita but feminists unfortunately tasted their first victory. After the position Of Ram had been degraded common men were an easier task. Within a decade they created furore over violence, dowry, rape (mathura rape case was a turning point ) and other make believe cooked up statistics. Soon authorities "anguished" over "rising" gender violence & gave women legal weapons one after another.

First was the rape law then the divorce law and then the 498A and now the domestic violence bill. More would follow

Even women associated or related to men are tarnished and rubbisshed. That's why elderly women "..the husband's mother.." is arrested. Pregnent sisters, who had the misfortune of having a male sibling are labelled as co accused in FALSE dowry cases, arrested and humiliated. Unammried sisters are also arrested or threatened.

Unless we negate the feminist propaganda as a whole and create an impression opposite the one feminists have created we are unlikely to suceed in our mission.