Characteristics Of Raunch Culture

Essay One: Being Successful in Raunch Culture
Ariel Levy, a staff writer at the New Yorker, and author of the article “Female Chauvinist Pigs” has brought up a very interesting topic called raunch culture. Now, what particularly is raunch culture? Raunch culture, in my own words, is a culture which allows women to participate in male-dominant cultures of raunch that deals a lot with sex in a way that is meant to be funny. Male and Female genders have various stereotypes labeled against them, and in this essay, I will go ahead and incorporate the different types of stereotypes men and women are labeled to, and to start with a first, one that is widely known by almost every individual, women being ‘girl-girls.’Girly-girls are girls, or women,

Now if asked “how” men express their feelings, I can say they do mostly by taking action. For example, it is there as a stereotype that all men are sexually driven, but it is certainly not something that we always catch every single one of them saying directly. Well then how do they express it? They express it through their actions, what they do, what they watch and sometimes where they even go. A typical woman who would catch a partner doing things like this would probably go insane learning that the partner is doing those things. This is because women were brought up in a way to be organized, clean and sexually conservative. But is it the women that cause them to appreciate these things? [That would be considered socially wrong in the women culture!] Then why do some women do these things? Why do they participate in raunch culture? There are many ways women can succeed, but with these types of women, they choose to succeed by going astray the norm and flowing in the direction of the opposite sex by becoming Female Chauvinist Pigs, which is the new brand of an “empowered woman” something outside the norm of woman. In her article “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” these women would say things like, “Why throw your boyfriend’s Playboy in a freedom trash can when you could be partying at the Mansion? Why try to beat them when you can join them?” (267). If some woman were to hear other women

Women are known to be very delicate, emotional and passive individuals. So to effectively achieve as FCP’s, they must be able to demonstrate these skills successfully to participate in raunch culture. They have to learn how to adopt these styles because it is something totally different from what they [women] are used to be doing. Women must prove their skills by executing them. According to Levy, “Raunch provides a special opportunity for a woman who wants to prove her mettle. It’s in fashion […], so producing it or participating in it is a way both to flaunt your coolness and to mark yourself as different, tougher, looser, funnier—a new sort of loophole woman who is ‘not like other women,’ who is instead ‘like a man’,” (269). So in order to participate in raunch, women have to adopt the stereotypes men are known to be stereotyped as by carrying out the known manners of their culture with the form of fashion to show that they can be tough and that they are distinct. While conforming to those styles, they also have to enjoy looking and making comments about what they think. According to Levy, “to really be like a man, FCP’s have to enjoy looking at those women, too,” (270). And also, if they, “are going to act ‘like a man,’ there has to be an inherent manliness to which they can