#3 Inclass: Ideals behind raunch culture

Opening idea:  Concept of watching flipping through channels and finding long lost shows of the 90's.  I loved watching these shows so now it has become a hobby of mine to find these shows.  (Full house, Family Matters, Dinasours, Rosanne, Step by Step, sister sister, ect.)  The TV shows i grew up with centered around moralistic values and imporance of family.  Now these shows are looked on as cheesy and in their place stands TV shows like Girls Gone Wild, The Real World, Pussycat Dolls Present: Search for the Next Doll, The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman, America's Next Top Model, Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire, and The Girls Next Door, Stepford wives, ect.  All of these are shows where women (mostly refered to as girls) compete for the approval of the men on these shows.  It is focuse solely on their bodies, sexulity, ect.  Its funny that I will be watching Home improvement on an ABC channel and then one channel up from it is an add for girls gone wild and soft core pornography.  

There are so many debatable issues i can use.  There is the idea that raunch culture is spread by the media, it is continuing because of women's lack of respect for themselves (why is this?), you can debate whether or not it should be accepted, you can debate how the acceptance of this free trend affects people my age, etc.  This topic is so rich in content and personal opinion that I could continue pages of solid debatable topics.  Some of the quick research topics I found were statistics on how many women would offer themselves freely to shows such as girls gone wild claiming it is the ultimate way of women's liberation.  One girl interviewed by philosopher Ariel Levy responds to the question of "why would anyone want to be in GGW?" with "The only way I could see someone not doing this is if they were planning a career in politics."  This girl got naked for a cheap blue hat.  Liberation and empowerment is about equality.  If all things were equal between men and women, would women necessarily still want to be stripping away their clothes for the soiled pieces of paper shoved down their G-string or thrown at them by men who more than likely are married?