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highlyeccentrichehe... 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
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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Date: 2006-05-02 06:46 am (UTC)So what is the vibe of the 21st century? Inner entrepreneur? Inner rapper? Inner Tolkien?
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Date: 2006-05-02 08:40 am (UTC)(oh dear, I just pronounced that acronym out loud. LOLOL!)
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Date: 2006-05-02 08:20 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-05-02 08:42 am (UTC)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*
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Date: 2006-05-05 12:20 am (UTC)aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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Date: 2006-05-05 12:46 am (UTC)