Feminism in Pop Culture

Valenti does it again in the chapter on pop culture from her book Full Frontal Feminism. She manages to make feminism and its ideal easy to understand and interesting for her readers. In this section specifically she talks about the view of sex in pop culture. One thing she talks about that I think is very interesting is ideal of a "sexy virgin". This is essentially an oxymoron that our culture today has come to see as the norm for girls these days. It is a fine line that all girls are working around. Trying to be as sexy as possible and enticing the approval of men, while at the same time virginal and uncorrupted. This image was extremely popular when I was younger with celebrities like Britney Spears. She went from an innocent girl to a sex symbol in a matter of a few years from "Baby One More Time" to "I'm A Slave 4 You". Suddenly this person that young girls looked up to was all about "I'm a slave for you. I cannot hold it, I cannot control it". Everything was about being the perfect girl to get the guys. Valenti's book addresses this fact and tells girls and women alike to remember their purpose is not for man's enjoyment but to be a person too.