Female Chauvinist Pigs Ariel Levy Summary

Ariel Levy’s book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture is about the post-feminism movement. Here many women have taken to wearing scandalous clothes because they “no longer needed to worry about objectification or misogyny.” This new view confuses Levy because feminism changed so much in such a short period of time. This is like any movement when one goal is achieved the group will try to solve the next issue that arises. Levy seems to not understand this progression because she is confused why women “burning their bras” and “picketing Playboy” evolved to women with revealing clothes and breast implants. For most, this change in feminism is appreciated because it shows that the war past feminists were fighting has been won. Her lack of understanding that the priorities change leads me to believe that she is ignorant to the topic. Her ignorance is also shown in the way she judges other women and she is misogynistic in what she wrote.
In her first chapter, Levy is judgmental towards the girls who want to dress in revealing clothes. One of the points of feminism is to not judge people …show more content…
She seems as if she will not even except what other women are saying about their idea of feminism. She is ignorant because she judges other women and she is misogynistic in what she wrote. Other women tried to tell her that what they are doing is liberating. However, it seems as if she is not willing to accept what they are saying because she is confused with how they are dressing and what they are doing. She claims “‘Raunchy’ and ‘liberated’ are not synonyms.” This is true they are not, and they do not need to be because why can’t a girl be both. She ends the chapter with “world of boobs and gams we have resurrected reflects how far we've come, or how far we have left to go.” The feminist movement still has a way to go because these things should not be