How Hook Up Culture Hurts Young Women Summary

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Margaret Wente’s June 2016 article, ”How hookup culture hurts young women”, discusses sexual liberation in the form of hookup culture and its the negative effects on young women, is extremely misleading and opinionated. The write attempts to convince readers that feminists support sexual liberation through hookup culture, despite its harmful influence on young feminists themselves. Although Wente’s article does appeal emotionally to the readers, it also contains misinterpretation of Feminist theory as well as implication, bias, and assumption.

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