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Simone de Beauvoir celebrated for naked body, other stuff
What does Lindsay Lohan have in common with the mother of modern feminism?
Charly Wilder [2008-02-27]
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  • Great Quote

    "Well I just don't give a damn ... I'm sorry to disappoint all the feminists, but you can say that it's too bad so many of them live only in theory instead of in real life."

    Charly, great post. Look forward to more contributions from you.

    --Anonymous
    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:43 PM

  • It's a shame

    ...that so many fiminists feel that in order to be be feminists they must some how give up their femininity.

    Ms. Beauvoir was, I think, a woman who was going to be a free person no matter what the culture she lived in thought of her. She didn't need the feminist movement. The movement needed her.

    -- IaintBacchus
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 01:03 PM

  • Great post.

    Thanks!

    -- alone
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 01:10 PM

  • Great article Charly Wilder. Welcome! Moreover, we need to remember that . . .

    "Well behaved women seldom make history." (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich)

    I think de Beauvoir looks fine in the photo. Now that I am older, I actually wish I had a few well-posed naked photos of myself as a young woman.

    -- AKA Smith
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 02:01 PM

  • This is the credo I live by

    "Well behaved MEN seldom make history." - Brightstar65

    -- brightstar65
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 02:03 PM

  • Trenchant! I Say, Trenchant!

    "Hence freeing the mother of modern feminism from the shackles of her cellulite" is dynamite writing, Charly. Looking forward to reading more of your work.

    Oh, and BTdubs? Lindsay's very much on the record as admiring the energy of Celine's prose, while left feeling cold by his structural failings and the lack of redemptive possibility in his work.

    -- Billy Baldwin
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 02:04 PM

  • Giving up femininity?

    IantBacchus says:

    It's a shame

    ...that so many fiminists feel that in order to be be feminists they must some how give up their femininity.

    This is one of those statements that is easily used to tar feminists but actually means nothing.

    You do not define what you mean by femininity. In the context of the post, I assume you equate femininity with posing naked for pictures? Or perhaps that you equate femininity with female sexuality?

    You also do not provide any basis for your assertion that there are nameless feminists who feel they must give up this "femininity" -- whatever that may be. How do you know what feminists do or do not feel?

    -- Pendragon3
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 02:22 PM

  • Ah, giving up femininity...

    Some women aren't that "feminine" to begin with, actually.

    Sorry if that freaks you out.

    -- trudy b
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 02:25 PM

  • my favorite de Beauvoir quote

    I'm paraphrasing, but I remember reading her saying or writing that "the purpose of a woman's dress was to inspire a man to take it off."

    Now that is my kind of feminism.

    -- Knox Bronson
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 02:55 PM

  • I, for one

    would quite like to see Lindsay Lohan's take on French existentialism.

    -- Leeandra Nolting
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 05:19 PM

  • Simone is hot (like Tracy)

    That is a beautiful bod on that cover.

    Would the average woman want to see Sartre's bare butt?

    -- captcrisis
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    Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:11 PM

  • <i>Would the average woman want to see Sartre's bare butt?</i>

    Yes.

    -- Pendragon3
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    Thursday, February 28, 2008 04:02 AM

  • Simon Beauver?

    Now I know who to read up on to find out where feminism went wrong.

    -- brightstar65
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    Thursday, February 28, 2008 07:49 AM

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