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hehe... it all looks different when it's your own daughter, doesn't it?

Naomi Wolf's book on female sexuality, Promiscuities, tells what's commonly known as the reclaim-your-inner-slut argument. It seems it now has a catch: 11-year-olds like her daughter don't count.

"It's interesting how the slut you want to reclaim as an ex-teenage girl is not the slut you want your daughter to reclaim," she told ABC Radio's Sunday Profile last night.

"As the mother of a soon-to-be-teenage girl, you know, it's like - honey, my slut is fine, but, you know, keep your slut in the closet!"

After helping Bill Clinton in his re-election campaign - and Al Gore in the one where he got more votes but still lost - she's now raging against the "disgusting" raunch marketing culture aimed at teenage girls.

This "psycho teen-obsessed luxury culture" is best represented by Paris Hilton, the famed example of fame-based fame, and Wolf thinks raunch culture is bad.

"I don't think it transgresses, any more, for teenage girls to reclaim their inner slut," she said. "It's incredibly conformist and conventional. Unfortunately, they are all being raised and pushed to produce someone else's slut. It's not their own inner slut."

(Be you rude or prude, you can hear her this month at the Sydney Writers' Festival.)- SMH

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i read that article too lol along with Honey soy!

I want to reclaim my inner slut!! :D Paint me tarty and call me Paris :P

you're some years behind the times then. inner slut is SO twentieth century.

i'm sure arni would be happy though :P

oh dear god, i just had an image of my mother recovering her inner slut...

Oh gods, thank you very much. That just prompted me to think of my mother recovering her inner slut. No, no noooooooooooo!!!!

So what is the vibe of the 21st century? Inner entrepreneur? Inner rapper? Inner Tolkien?

Complaining about Other People's Inner Slut. Declaring that women are now oppressing women. etc.

Gosh that's so incisive it's scary. You're right of course. Yeeaarrrghhh. I think I might go and take refuge inside the Pink Knitted Den of Inducement.

i remember that. *cries* distressing.

A lot less distressing than CAOPIS, I think 0_0

(oh dear, I just pronounced that acronym out loud. LOLOL!)

hehe it does sound funny :P

and haha on the mother thought :P

Yes well. My mother is 65 so you can see why this is a little alarming :P

indeed...

MY mother on the other hand is forty-something. Still perfectly eligible to recover her inner slut. But given that joel at thirteen had to explain to her what a dildo is... the inner slut is far removed, methinks.

Yikes. Yes. Possibly holidaying on Alpha Centauri?

On a serious note though, I think it's entirely possible for one to be in touch with one's inner slut at any age. It's what you *do* with it that might be rather...alarming :P

*tries not to imagine Paris Hilton at 92*

I'm in touch with my inner slut. She sends me long letters from Alpha Centauri :)

Letters are so much nicer than emails or text messages, don't you think? :D

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

i'm sorry small child. that must have been a traumatic thought.

Did you know that some of your advertising appears in Dutch? :D

no... are you sponsored + too? it could be tailoring my ads to you when you're browsing...

or it's just giving me dutch ads. why the hell not?

Nee, I'm not sponsored. I just happened to go into your journal when I wasn't signed in, and suddenly there all the ads were :D

It does raise questions though. Is it tailoring the ads to the content of your pages, or to the location/needs of your readers? Or is it somehow doing both?

well how would it know where you are?

i don't think i told it WHERE i am, just picked five interest categories. what were the dutch ads for?

Well that's the thing. How *would* it know where I am, if I'm not signed in? Maybe it's somehow accessing my IP address or something. Spooky.

At least one of them was to do with movies, but I didn't read them very thoroughly.

google ads are psychic, this has long been established.

although sometimes their idea of friendly hints is scary :s

Yes, I know. Some of the things that turn up in my gmail box are distinctly unnerving 0_0

well, in long running email convos between lukas and I, gmail had a habit for a while of advertising
*baby care products
*wedding music
and *various sneaky ways to immigrate to either canada or australia

i was distinctly unnerved by this.

Understandable, indeed.

(how on earth did I manage to come up with "enderstandable" as a mis-spell??)

I'm going to pay more attention to the ads that come up in some of my weirder email convos. There's at least one person whose emails should bear strange fruit :D

Given the ad discussion in these comments I see fit to point out the concerning ad I get on this very page titled "Your 1 True Love"

obviously in reference to Naomi Wolf :P

Obviously, those the ad in the same space has now become "Ringtone on Religion" but never fear two ads below "Who's your perfect lover?"

or perhaps ms Wolf's eleven year old daughter...

and explain why the gmail ad next to this notification email includes an ad for new zealand immigration???

Probably because you mentioned an animal...