Female Chauvinist Pigs

While reading Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy, I was surprised about multiple things. Levy writes, “If you ever watch television when you have insomnia, then you are already familiar with Girls Gone Wild: late at night, infomercials show bleeped-out snippets of the brand’s wildly popular, utterly plotless videos, composed entirely from footage of young women flashing their breasts, their buttocks, or occasionally their genitals at the camera, and usually shrieking “Whoo!” while they do it.” The first time I saw the infomercials, I thought it was a mistake. How could anything like this be on television? What if kids are wake up in the middle of the night and are flipping through the channels? I couldn’t believe it. The producers of the GGW organization probably have some type of children in their family. It makes me wonder if they think about those children watching such infomercials. I was also surprised about the Olympic athletes posing for Playboy. I think that it is completely degrading for them to do that. While reading Female Chauvinist Pigs, I connect to both books that we have read prior to this one. All three books that we have read have given multiple examples to back up their argument. In Branded, Alissa Quart used many young teens/tweens as examples of how they had been branded. In Hip Hop Revolution, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar used multiple artists to prove his point. So far in Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy has used both “Playboy” and “Girls Gone Wild” to express her opinion. I am enjoying Female Chauvinist Pigs more than I did the other two texts.