Word: raunch
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...book “Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture,” Ariel Levy decries the extremely sexualized female behavior that today poses as feminism...
Though Levy’s writing style may be more New York Magazine (where she works) than Harvard sociology term paper, the book’s central thesis—that raunch culture has replaced true female liberation—rings incredibly, depressingly true...
...fact, women have become the key purveyors of raunch culture and female objectification—the “female chauvinist pigs” or “FCP’s” of the title...
...looking at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and she “wouldn’t talk because I...get really upset when guys find girls really attractive. Because I want that attention.” Are current teenage girls’ warped self-image the endpoint of raunch culture...
DIED. SHELLEY WINTERS, 85, zaftig, high-decibel star who played some of the movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary...