Empowered women?

I think this society is having a feminist movement. And if Hilary wins President, expect it to get a lot worse! I mean, nothing wrong with it, but it seems that a woman can do certain things that if a man has done he'd be greatly looked down upon. Basically, if a woman does it, it's empowerment. If a man does it, he's a pig or male chavonist. We can't win right now.

 

I always thought this was about double standards. A man sleeps with a lot of women and he's a stud. A woman sleeps with a lot of men and she's a ****.

 

Times have changed! I work with women who brag about it. Women use to want to get married and raise a family. Now.............they dont' even want to cook. Maybe it's cause of the men who have been brought up really wrong and this countries screwed up moral system now but women just dont' seem like women any more. I mean...........not the way they use to be anyway.

 

Guys can't get pregnant, so...we can leave our duties behind(which we shouldn't) and only have to worry about STD's. Chicks have the possibility of getting pregnant, birth control or not. I think that's the reasoning people use when females sleep around.

I don't think empowerment means ****ing everyone you come across...that just comes off as sleazy, male or female.

 

I don't think wome have changed. I think perception of women have. Like I said, it used to be ****ty to sleep around. Now it's empowering. Now, women have been doing the nasty since women were invented; it's nothing new. We are just now seeing it in a different light.

This makes me think of that great line from Chasing Amy where Holden tells Alyssa that she was used by all the men she slept with. She replies, "I used them."

 

Pun intended?

 

Kainedamo you get channel 4 in northern ireland?

 

I remember watching this documentry a while back ( think it was on bravo) anyway they were interviewing these teenage girls and they were saying how they like to go down on their boyfriends cause it makes them feel empowered. I was like ookay what the hell.

 

I think I came across that last night while surfing through the sky channels

 

Can we just re-title this thread "Kaine Doesn't Understand Women: Part 35" and move on?

jag

 

Kaine, I think you focus too much on generalizations. 'Women' do this and 'men' get treated this way. 'I hate girls because they all do this and that.' You're replacing a lack of solid basic experiences of a wide variety of people with oversimplified media/society drivel, and focusing on any personal experiences that reinforce these stereotypes. Its never as simple as 'women now are acting like men and getting praised for it.' Even if some women on TV present it that way. You're further alienating yourself from people by harboring these kinds of monochrome beliefs about people.

I've never been called empowered for anything I've done, from drunken boob flashing to comic book enjoying. I don't care, really, whether what I do is empowering or degrading. I do what I like to do- I don't expect/demand praise for it, nor do I cry when called a ****. I appreciate praise and the like, of course, but I don't feel its my empowered right to act the way I do and therefore it should be accepted.

There are nuances behind every stereotype/generalization.

 

"****" can be a compliment, you know.

jag

 

Oh, I know.


All depends on who its coming from.

 

Just making sure we're clear about that. *snaps leather belt*

jag

 

I am not alone.

 

I was thinking more in the 'catty jealous girls' or 'mom finds out I'm nekkid on the interwebz' way.

Your way is much much better.

 

You are among pervs. You are safe, here.

jag

 

jag

 

"safe"

 

Phew! I thought this place was filled with "normal", boring people.

 

It is not a nasty thing if the people involved know what's going on and want the same thing. It's only nasty if there is some deception.
And this is nothing new and to act like it is is absurd. I have been surrounded by "****ty", unapologetically hedonistic females all of my life.
All the way back to the 60's, it's been very common.

This TV "Expert" is just more BlaBlaBla, fill time on air, sensationalize, drum up something bull s***.
I guess what's new is that some women who didn't use to have this attitude are less ashamed of themselves, but other women have still been there living in this way.

Heh, this is funny. Seizing the power to intentionally objectify themselves after decades of moaning about how their objectification demeans them.

As I've said many times, it's like this one ex of mine who really liked....*sigh*....what's the acceptable term TODAY on the Hype, "performing oral sex on me" ?
Because it "gave her a sense of power".
lol, and I'm like, "erm, I always get a sense of power myself, laying back while you work at pleasuring me, but, ....knock yerself out, PowerBlaster. "

Male Empowerment?

lol
If you're a man you TAKE the power.
No need to ask where it is.
It is in the palm of your hand.

I can't believe I'd have to explain this to you, but when adoration is heaped upon females for loving the things that are predominantly loved by males, it isn't because it's seen as some kind of incredible attribute in and of itself.

It's because they so rarely enjoy those things, so the opportunity to have shared interests like that is prized.

I don't think a girl is wonderful because she knows who Dr. Evazan is, by name.
It's because she's a girl who knows who Dr. Evazan is.
It makes sense to me.