[Dean's World] Dean: Thoughts On Girls Gone Wild

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Posted by Dean:
Thoughts On Girls Gone Wild
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   As an insomnia-sufferer I'm finding myself watching late night TV in
   the wee hours of Sunday morning. I'm now watching a long infomercial
   for "Girls Gone Wild."

   Go ahead and laugh at me if you want. Yes, you got me: I'm a 41 year
   old married man and I find this compelling television. Sue me. But
   when I look at the whole "Girls Gone Wild" phenomenon, I have
   reactions on multiple levels. Most of them intellectual.

   The big questions in this cultural phenomenon come to this:

   1) Why are men excited by this? 2) Why do these women do this?

   The angry "conservative" and/or "feminist" position would be that this
   is about "degradation of women." That's BS. Nothing in these videos is
   about degradation or contempt. Nobody who loves these videos hates
   women. If anything, it's empowering of the women involved.

   But it's also obviously unhealthy.

   What it seems to amount to is that people seek approval. The girls do
   it because they get positive affirmation for doing it. The boys love
   it because they just love it, and so they provide the affirmation.

   Boys like looking at girls, and girls like being looked at. That's
   just the way life is.

   But still, it seems unhealthy to me to make this an obsession. Am I
   wrong about that?