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Look no further than magazine covers soliciting advice on how to dress for a man, how to get him to propose, and sex moves that will make his head spin for evidence of a cultural obsession with the objectification of women. According to popular culture, a woman needs a boyfriend to feel fulfilled; she needs someone to tell her she’s “turning him on” to feel sexy. True sexiness, however, increases with a confident assertion that she does not need affirmation or affection from men in order to be a strong woman...
Miraculous new communications technologies have suddenly appeared, transforming everyday life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable...
...1920s in the United States, after women won the right to vote. It surfaced again in the 1990s after the hard-won successes of the 1970s had receded far enough into the past to seem culturally commonplace. Harvard women gave the the anti-feminist movement a unique spin, focusing on a perceived dedication to the status of victimhood by feminists; for the typical Type-A Harvard student, lacking agency is an unforgivable vice. By the mid-90s, even such seemingly innocuous organizations like Take Back The Night, which devotes itself to raising awareness of rape and sexual assault, were derided...
...It’s certainly getting a lot of attention,” says Hinman. As the party raged on, Jewish rock band Red Heifer made the walls of Beren Hall throb with deafening bass as the Purimpalooza attendees hit the dance floor. The band puts its own kosher spin on rock-and-roll classics, and normally caters to the Jewish party-animal crowd with songs like “I Can’t Get No Hamantashen.” “Purim is joyous,” says Bernard Steinberg, the executive director of Harvard Hillel...
...before we look forward to that perverse pleasure, let’s take a spin Around the Ivies, one last time?...