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Love, Actually

Jun 13, 2010 18:09

How girls reluctantly endure the hookup culture By Caitlin Flanagan

In case you haven’t noticed, millions of girls are in the midst of a cultural insurrection. Armed with the pocket money that has made them a powerful consumer force since the 1920s, girls have set their communal sights on a particular kind of entertainment, and when they find it ( Read more... )

dating/relationships, religion, sex

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entelodont June 14 2010, 03:57:18 UTC

I wish there were hot teenage (lesbian) sex parties going on when I was in high school, damn

underdog_ontop June 14 2010, 04:09:33 UTC

shoulda gone to an all-girls school like me then duuh!

nekokonneko June 14 2010, 05:08:06 UTC

There were no such things at my all girls alma mater. Then again it was a Catholic school...

underdog_ontop June 14 2010, 05:16:31 UTC

mine was catholic too but we didn't have any lesbian sex parties either hahah. we just drank. A LOT.

underdog_ontop June 14 2010, 04:10:24 UTC

the wrong kind of girl

i've gotten into so many fights about stupid fucking taylor swift i don't even...ugh.

delightedly June 14 2010, 05:14:43 UTC

Her music makes me rage so hard.

underdog_ontop June 14 2010, 05:25:45 UTC

some dude was arguing with me trying to prove that all girls want a Nice Guy or some such bullshit and he was like "do you like taylor swift" and i was like "lol no" and then he was like "do you like twilight" and i was like "just...stop".

delightedly June 14 2010, 05:55:25 UTC

LOL A+ RESPONSE. if T-Swift makes me rage, Twilight makes my brains explode from fury.

makemerun June 14 2010, 04:28:39 UTC

( ... )

hugweed June 14 2010, 05:09:06 UTC

i was gonna reply with this gif, actually factually

thank you for expressing my 8< and bewilderment, cat.

rampant_chaos8 June 14 2010, 15:33:33 UTC

Old meme? Pssht. That gif is still perfect :D

matchboxer June 14 2010, 04:32:35 UTC

her earliest textbooks on puberty have included, perforce, eye-opening and often upsetting information on everything from the transmission of HIV to the range and expression of sexual orientations.

wait is she really saying that comprehensive sex ed is a bad thing?

sunshinedan June 14 2010, 05:05:01 UTC

I think she is saying its more upsetting if we read it in books than if a doctor gives a diagnoses?

paintmeamovie June 14 2010, 05:08:23 UTC

I'm sorry but the only thing that stupid T Swift song does is teach women to hate each other.
I couldnt read after that.

pinkpolarity June 14 2010, 11:36:46 UTC

What song? I want to go listen to this thing that's causing so much controversy, I've never even heard of her.

iheartfigtrees June 14 2010, 13:15:52 UTC

Those lyrics quoted at the beginning of the article ("She wears high heels...") are from Taylor Swift's song "You Belong With Me", here's the video which has that tired Madonna/whore bullshit going on, setting the brunette bitchy cheerleader ("the wrong kind of girl") against the blonde virginal geek* girl

*geek in the Hollywood "glasses and ponytail on a conventionally pretty girl" sense

paintmeamovie June 14 2010, 19:23:41 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw

heres a link to the video.
It really ticks me off because the entire thing is what many of us fight against every day-- the idea that women are inherently to blame, that a relationship wouldnt have problems if she wouldnt be such a bitch and try harder, that girls can be pigeonholed as "cheerleader" or "pretty" and that is the only meaning they have as a person. Oh and it has that BS competitive and pathetic tone of, "I'm not one of THOSE girls"

Haha, I'm just mad though cause I was the girl in HS who was always hated cause I had boyfriends.

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