Word: maleness
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Levy posits that women have now come to view other women through a traditionally male perspective...
...They strive either to become like one of the boys or an object of male desire. The rationale is that if women are in control of their own objectification, then the practice is no longer degrading, but empowering...
...ultimate irony, Levy believes, is that American women have lost sight of their own sexual happiness in their pursuit to conform to male desires. Looking and acting like a porn star has simply replaced homemaking as the litmus test for twenty-first century women’s femininity...
However, the publication is filled with male fantasies: nude women with blonde hair and enormous breasts. For Levy, this fact alone is enough to refute the claim that posing for Playboy is the equivalent of female liberation...
...remember when girls started to use sex to attract male attention in middle school, but it is still shocking to read about a pubescent girl giving oral sex on a school bus in public...