#3 Outside of class: Argument chart

Viewpoint:  Raunch culture not only stands as an ambassador of objectifying women, but encourages women to objectify themselves for societies acceptance.

Support:  There is unrelenting raunchy material in every advertisement, in entertainment, and product.

  Excessive increase in plastic surgery from 1997 to 2007.

  Booming sex industry.  Women support and work for companies like GGW and Playboy.  

  Many examples of women pointing out sexual things such as Katie Curic announcing her breast look great and that they are real on the Tonight Show.

  Woman exposing themselves for a brand (GGW) as opposed to being compensated for footage the company is

making a killer off of.

   Women wearing symbols and icons of raunch such as Playboy.  (This associates women with the brand)

   Women using "slut" and "whore" in their friendly vocabulary towards each other--this only makes it ok to label 

women with these names

Other View Points:      Stripping and Pole dancing is liberating and empowering

Women feel that it is their rite to express their sexuality the way they wish (they way they do it suggests 

whether or not it is objectifying women as a whole)

"This is what our feminists fought for."  (The women who burned their bras fought for equality.  I dont see 

men running around naked arguing that it shows equality.)

It is up to one's moral whether or not to let Raunch Culture affect them.  (If one women chooses to pose  nude or simulate masturbation, it is her choice but as soon as the footage is published, that one  woman has represented women holistically.  What men see becomes the epitome of what they expect and want, and with more and more women succumbing to the stereotypes of what our culture says is "sexy," it is a challenge not to fall astray to RC.  These ads and entertainment are exceptionally targeted at young teenagers  and preteens.  Many of these girls find themselves yielding to the overpowering pressure to look like these women associated with sexy.   There is an overwhelming desire to be beautiful and desired, therefore, if men are responding positively to the girl's actions on girls gone wild, women are going to see this and associate these raunchy acts with acceptance and approval.  Here is where girls and women give up on developing their own sense of what beautiful is, and focus on what is expected of them.  Women compare themselves to other women because it is the only self accurate measurement of how attractive they are.  Comparing body to body, face to face, object to object.