KLS Mentioned in new book

[Julia99]

KLS's book, The Bunny Years is mentioned in the new (and thank god someone wrote this!) book, Female Chauvinist Pigs:  Women and the Rise of the Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy. http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/21/012936.php

[Midnite]

Yay!  I want to read this.

And Erica Jong never disappoints. 

[Connie]

Oh!  So THAT'S why I'm always seeing the majority of girls/women dressed like sluts -- from middle school all the way up through college.

It's some sort of radical, feminist statement.   

Okay.  I get it.

[Julia99]

Oh!  So THAT'S why I'm always seeing the majority of girls/women dressed like sluts -- from middle school all the way up through college.

It's some sort of radical, feminist statement.  

Okay.  I get it.

right. . i don't think I agree .. i think most of the females now are clueless about continued invisible manipulation and marginilization. .if you're not this'n that you're not valued by certain males. . .i'm only in the first chapter of the book but again, thank god someone wrote this .. i thought i was one in a million looking around bewildered. .

[Teresa]

This book does sound interesting. This summer I was at an amusement park and my sister and I notice how many young girls (12-15yrs) were walking around in suggestive clothing. One girl I felt especially bad for. She could not have been more than 13 yrs old. Had a sucker in her mouth, very low rise jean with a cropped t-shirt and what appeared to be a suggestive tatoo very low under her belly button. It may have been one of those stick on tatoos but the fact she put it there means she wants it to be seen.
I've taken my 8yr old niece out shopping and even clothes in their section are questionable. My biggest pet peeve with kids clothes are those t-shirts that read "I'm spoiled", "Hottie" etc. When you get shirts like that in a kids size 4-8 their is something wrong.
I'm going out to buy that book this weekend.
Teresa

[Nancy]

It's some sort of radical, feminist statement.  

Yep, absolutely.  The T-Shirt that goes with it states CLUELESS AND PROUD!

[Midnite]

LOL, Nancy!

We need to try to stay on topic, and yes, I'm guilty too.  That said, I am dying to know what the author says about KLS and her book.  I see from the index that they're discussed in the Raunch Culture chapter.  

[MsCriseyde]

That said, I am dying to know what the author says about KLS and her book.  I see from the index that they're discussed in the Raunch Culture chapter.

You can search inside the book on Amazon and find it, but you have to be a registered Amazon user to view the page image. She's just mentioned parenthetically as having refuted Steinem's "A Bunny's Tale."

[Luciaphile]

It doesn't look like she looms large. I see one reference to Page 36 in the index and with the search inside feature.

[Midnite]

Thank you!  It's brief, but amusing nonetheless. 

[Nancy]

The whole KLS reference is hilarious, IMO.  All I can think of is the photo of Jonathan Frid taken as he was supposedly entering the Playboy Bunny Club in NYC.

Nancy

Thank you!  It's brief, but amusing nonetheless. 

[MsCriseyde]

The whole KLS reference is hilarious, IMO.

You do get the sense that it's one of those mentions that the author tossed in just to show she had done her research on the topic and knew someone had supposedly challenged Steinem's portrayal, but it's pretty clear she doesn't take KLS very seriously. 

[Raineypark]

My local Border's Books is open until 10pm.....I may have to get there tonight.

It's a topic close to my heart: I have a 19 year old daughter who has dealt with this problem for years. 

[Heather]

i think most of the females now are clueless about continued invisible manipulation and marginilization. .if you're not this'n that you're not valued by certain males. . .i'm only in the first chapter of the book but again, thank god someone wrote this

Absolutely!

Sorry Midnite - I don't mean to continue this discussion in the off topic territory. But, As someone who is of the age group in question, I just had to say that I agree...

Misfit in Pgh.,
Heather

[Luciaphile]

The whole KLS reference is hilarious, IMO.

You do get the sense that it's one of those mentions that the author tossed in just to show she had done her research on the topic and knew someone had supposedly challenged Steinem's portrayal, but it's pretty clear she doesn't take KLS very seriously. 

I enjoyed the KLS book, but a feminist or a deep thinker, KLS is not. She seemed to miss Steinem's whole point. And there's not much in the Bunny Years to work with in a serious piece...