![]() New York magazine writer Ariel Levy's 2005 cultural study Female Chauvinist Pigs described a new kind of misogyny perpetrated by women who curry favor by "Uncle Tomming" mainstream frat behavior in the guise of sexual empowerment. De Beauvoir disagreed: “No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children … because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.” Given the multiple levels of female self-surveillance, with women being watched by other women, women being watched by men, women being watched by women being watched by men - a sorority house built in the shape of a panopticon - De Beauvoir’s patronizing sentiment remains alluring to some ostensible feminists who want to protect women from the harmful effects of a scopophilic culture that doesn’t permit them to flourish. In a 1976 interview, Betty Friedan suggested to Simone de Beauvoir that women who wanted to stay home and raise their children had a right to do so. That industry needs to die, by all of us being a little bit better than that. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going there? I feel like we all need to be better than that. ![]() ![]() I love to play strippers and to imitate them. Ooh, that bloody bitch, I can't get her out of my head." Graham smiled at her, a lovely smile she had not seen before. ![]() ![]() That's real immoral, is that … They get us girls a bad name, they do, bitches like that. ![]()
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