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Y'see, apparently sex-positive feminists are all a bunch of irresponsible, hormone-driven twentysomething party girls who wear skimpy clothes, talk about "Girl Power" and derive a false sense of power from attracting male attention. Yep, that's me, young, gorgeous, lean-bellied, perky-breasted, wearing a baby tee and high heels, batting my false eyelashes at the men. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I think that one of the problems is that the face of sex-positive feminism in the larger media *is* precisely "sexy feminism" - heavy on the (conventionally) sexy, light on the feminism. They're the ones who get hired to write sex columns in the indie papers, they're the ones who create sex-positive blogs that get A-listed without much effort (I remember one "best of sex blogs" list where every single blog featured a conventionally attractive 20-something woman as either author or model, usually both), they're the ones who get the book deals*, etc.
If you don't fit that type, attention is much harder to attract. (Speaking of which - read Figleaf, everybody!)
It's also complicated in that, within the blogosphere, there's a cadre of generally sex-positive women who identify as anti-feminist, seemingly in response to feeling left out of feminism. So you've got quite a few "sex positive" people for a radical feminist contingent to respond to, but not a group that's a particularly representative sample.
*[I'm emphatically NOT referring to books like Full Frontal Feminism or It's a Jungle Out There here - I've got in mind all the "My Year as a College Stripper" diaries out there. Some of them may be good reading, but surely there's room for more in the sex-pos canon.]
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Date: 2008-03-27 03:13 am (UTC)Y'see, apparently sex-positive feminists are all a bunch of irresponsible, hormone-driven twentysomething party girls who wear skimpy clothes, talk about "Girl Power" and derive a false sense of power from attracting male attention. Yep, that's me, young, gorgeous, lean-bellied, perky-breasted, wearing a baby tee and high heels, batting my false eyelashes at the men. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
I think that one of the problems is that the face of sex-positive feminism in the larger media *is* precisely "sexy feminism" - heavy on the (conventionally) sexy, light on the feminism. They're the ones who get hired to write sex columns in the indie papers, they're the ones who create sex-positive blogs that get A-listed without much effort (I remember one "best of sex blogs" list where every single blog featured a conventionally attractive 20-something woman as either author or model, usually both), they're the ones who get the book deals*, etc.
If you don't fit that type, attention is much harder to attract. (Speaking of which - read Figleaf, everybody!)
It's also complicated in that, within the blogosphere, there's a cadre of generally sex-positive women who identify as anti-feminist, seemingly in response to feeling left out of feminism. So you've got quite a few "sex positive" people for a radical feminist contingent to respond to, but not a group that's a particularly representative sample.
*[I'm emphatically NOT referring to books like Full Frontal Feminism or It's a Jungle Out There here - I've got in mind all the "My Year as a College Stripper" diaries out there. Some of them may be good reading, but surely there's room for more in the sex-pos canon.]