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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

Date: 2006-05-02 07:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
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?

Date: 2006-05-02 08:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niamh-sage.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2006-05-02 08:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
google ads are psychic, this has long been established.

although sometimes their idea of friendly hints is scary :s

Date: 2006-05-02 08:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niamh-sage.livejournal.com
Yes, I know. Some of the things that turn up in my gmail box are distinctly unnerving 0_0

Date: 2006-05-02 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2006-05-02 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niamh-sage.livejournal.com
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

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