- Rape Myths/Porn Myths
- Visible/Invisible
- Hairy beavers, and waxinistas!
- The Stepford Slut: hypersexualized, young, thin, toned, hairless, and in many cases surgically enhanced woman with a come-hither look on her face.
- Sex and the City: these women are independent yet, they are underminded by thier dependency on men and male approval.
- Women of Sex and the City are described as being independent, not becuase they refuse to submit to men's power, but becuase they can afford to buy their own high-end goods.
- Cosmopolitan (look into it).
- Women at the hairdresser, gym, clothes shop: long and involved conversations about dieting; Women recite lenghty lists abuot what they have eaten, what they intend to eat, and what they need to stop eating.
- The bodies of women we see in magazines and on television are actually very unusual in their measurements and proportions, with long necks, broad shoulders, and high waists; yet because these are more or less the only images we see, we take them to be the norm rather than the exception and assume that the problem lies with us and not the fashion and media industry that insist on using a very specific body type.
- What media does: they take the abnormal body and make it normal by virtue of its visibility while making the normal bodies of real women look abnormal by virtue of thier invisibility.
- Thin women are prized in this culture, "I want to be prized" and therefore I need to be thin, which means that I can't eat."
- Hook-up sex
- 25% of college students are virgins; most guys have sex with just one person in a typical year (According to Esquire).
- Women who are college-age students were interested in turning hookup partners into boyfriends, while men who are college-age students prefer to hookup with no strings attached.
- Women who participate in hookups have lower self esteem and higher levels of depression and they experience regret over the hookups.
- Depressed females may be seeking external validation from sex.
- These women resort to self-destructive behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, self-mutilation, academic withdrawal or risky sexual conduct.
- Girls most likely to be labeled sluts are those who "act too casual and/or flaunt thier sexuality as well as those who "flirt too heavily, blossom to early, or dress too scantily"
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