This is my first submission to the community here at feministing.com. I was made aware of this site, and of Jessica Valenti in my graduate women's studies class at East Carolina University. I've been walking around feeling all empowered after reading Full Frontal Feminism, having deep conversations with male friends about the state of feminism and sexism...basically just on a feminist high. A couple of hours ago, I decided to check ECU's student paper, as I'd never read it before. What I saw made me feel like I'd been sucker punched.
This article was written by a woman and allowed to go to press by a female editor-in-chief. Just when I thought that our generation was of a similar mind, someone comes out with crap like this.
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That article was heinous. Why don't you submit a response to the paper?
Oh, I did. I have yet to hear anything, but I did share it with the rest of my Women's Studies class. I'm a distance ed student, so I don't get to see the print version...perhaps my letter was printed and I missed it.
I'm going to apply to the paper next semester as a columnist and see what I can do to make some waves and inspire positive discussion of women's issues.
Oh, and I might facebook stalk the writer. :P
Ugh! A disgusting article all around - patronizing, slut-shaming, and badly written, even.
I agree. Not only is it full of slut-shaming garbage...it's horribly written! How did this woman get a job at the newspaper in the first place?
Agreed. It's terrible. It doesn't even use any anecdotes or specific stories, just vague generalizations about "this woman" and "frat brothers." There's a reason why good writing is supposed to use vivid examples; they can surprise readers and challenge their prejudices, trite cliches can't.
It seems to me that the woman writing the article is struggling with her own ideas about casual sex and relationships in general. I think this is another symptom of the way society has oppressed women, to the extent that most women end up bashing themselves and others in order to "fit in".
This paper should be ashamed of running such misogynistic filth.
You could play a drinking game with that article. Men always want sex instead of relationships and they will sleep with anyone! Women all want to be accepted! Women only know how to be liked by using sex!
I think it's so strange that after all that slut-shaming, the article ends up considering casual sex with one partner more moral than casual sex with multiple partners. It's like the author can't quite bring herself to take that final step into purity-land and condemn all pre-marital sex.
The author of that article is the next Phyllis Schlafly.
Ummmm, This was more than disturbing. Sadly, I could see it being run in my college newspaper.
Sometimes you feel helpless to change.
Ummmm, This was more than disturbing. Sadly, I could see it being run in my college newspaper.
Sometimes you feel helpless to change.