Female Chauvinist Pigs Analysis

This week’s reading, the third chapter from Ariel Levy’s piece “Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture” was a truly striking chapter. In it, Levy explores a wide-spread yet widely unexamined subset of females of today: the female chauvinist pigs. In order to explore the phenomena that is the female chauvinist pig Levy takes a look at several women of today and how these women live their lives and in particular, looking at how these women have succeeded or aim to succeed in their lives and career paths by adapting their appearances to basically come off to others as being a man trapped inside a woman’s body. Levy discusses how women have learned to adapt typically stereotyped male personality characteristics in order to …show more content…
It seems to be that Levy has drawn back some giant curtain that has veiled the realities of the ways in which numbers of incredibly intelligent women have made their marks in the world—by being what is termed the “female chauvinist pig.” The piece by Levy is important not merely for what it says about this subvert phenomena but also because it actually says it. Females have taken the stereotypical male personalities, put them behind lip-sticked mouths, and have gained notoriety for doing so. Some might just look at these women and never even think of how these giants have played an intense game with the way society looks at them in order to succeed. The chapter is important for the realm of gender studies because it calls into question the idea of feminism in pop culture and in the world at large and how personality characteristics have become the means by which some women have met their exalted …show more content…
The argument is astonishing, not merely for what it says but also for the fact that it says it. The idea of the female chauvinist pig, a women working with masculine mentalities, is a concept that I had never had drawn to my attention before. I feel as though Levy’s piece would be beneficial to not only females but also males. As unusual as it may sound, I would like think that this article might have an astounding effect on a young teenager. As teens, both males and females are sorting out a lot of angst and societal issues within themselves and if they would happen to stumble upon the argument of Levy, it might have a lasting effect on them. If the argument would stick with them throughout these times it might mold how they view stereotypically sexist characteristics and barriers between the masculine/feminine divide might be prone to crumble if we could have a progressive society that challenges the accepted norms on personality characteristics in a realm that is eternally important: the workplace. It might be here that roots could take hold and the concepts of the arbitrariness of gendered characteristics could take hold someday, and no longer would genders be adopting traits of the other but instead these engendered traits wouldn’t stick out in the first place, as optimistic as that may