A Plan to Reboot Dating & End the Hook-Up Culture (& Revolutionize Feminism While We're At It)

[Valin]

Ricochet:

Emily Esfahani Smith

11/13/12

 

Maybe I've been reading too much Camille Paglia, but I have a new vision of feminism for young women inspired by ancient Greece. My feminism--Lysistrata Feminism--is meant to reboot dating and end the hook-up culture (as I explain further in the excerpt below and also at the Atlantic):

 

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These women are looking at the problem the wrong way, I think. They need to realize that, in spite of campus sex ratios and prevailing cultural trends, they hold the power when it comes to the hook up culture. They hold the power when it comes to sex.

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Rather than let the left define the feminism debate--and take advantage of the manipulative "war on women" trope--I say we start our own movement, grounded in the innate sexual power that all women have! What do you think? Who's with me?

 

 

Why buy the cow, when you're getting the milk for free?

[Valin]