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Recently, the Gender and Education Association Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT St. When Betty Friedan’s Book the Feminine reported that in Great Britain, many young women are Mystique was published in the 1960s, it ignited a firestorm reticent to identify themselves with the feminist movement. Gloria Steinem and margaret Sloan at a 1973 rap session of controversy. The world had never been introduced to such Some cited derisive epithets once associated with feminism brazen revelations about the female psyche. Soon, many (such as “man-hating”) as their deterrents. For others, it is are we looking at fully naked women? Why do people insist feminists ranging from Gloria Steinem to Valerie Solanas the need to appear glamorous and attractive to the opposite that women want to look at other naked women exploiting would impart their ideals on the world at large. The women’s sex that keeps them away from the moniker. themselves for male gratification, and yet, we hardly ever see movement took shape and soon gave birth to many initiatives Heather Porter is a Burbank waitress and hostess who men flinging their things in the wind?” including the ERA or Equal Rights Amendment. Roe v. Wade refuses to associate herself with the movement or the term. Although most feminists agree that visible portrayals of gave women autonomy over their bodies, and birth control “Feminism makes people think you’re a lesbian or female sexuality are important to the movement, there is the gave women the right to sexual and reproductive freedom. something,” says the 18-year-old. “My boyfriend would drop concern that the fight has come full circle. However, in the years since the groundbreaking me so hard if I ever started talking that crap.” “In some ways, we’re right back to where we started,” 1960s-1980s, feminism has nearly vanished from the Porter has been saving her tips to pay for a breast notes Shur. “Sixty years ago, you were barefoot and pregnant mainstream landscape. Some surmise that the idea of it is augmentation, which she hopes will one day land her on the in the kitchen with your 2.3 kids. Your sexuality was dictated still in play, even though public rallies or political calls to pages of Playboy or Maxim magazine. to you by your husband and maybe your religion. But now arms are less a part of the national cultural lexicon. “I like being looked at, and I like being liked,” she says. you’ve got these girls who want to go back to that. They’re “When you watch TV, you see the ads for birth control Porter isn’t alone. Film and television portrayals of competing for male attention. They’re taking that fight and pills and patches, don’t you?” says Anna Shur. “That’s women are skewed toward female nudity and graphic putting the winnings back in the hands of men.” feminism right there.” displays of female sexuality. These days, some porn stars As for Porter, she sums up the situation with a suggestion In her teens, Shur was a self-professed member of the have as much recognition as classically trained actresses. This that just might reignite the feminist revolution and bring a mid-1990s Riot Grrrl movement that originated in the upsets Denise Renkin. new, cohesive face to the movement. Pacific Northwest. Riot Grrrls were seen as the feminist “My friend was telling me about [a] conversation on “They need to get somebody – somebody cool and pretty counterparts to the punk and grunge bands of the day. Facebook where everyone was disgusted by all the nudity and famous – and if they really want people like me to join Groups like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile sang about women on HBO’s shows,” she says. “I agree and was so happy [they] them, have her show that it’s OK. Because right now, I just galvanizing to fight against misogyny. Shur spent many years had the guts to say something. Why on a show called ‘Hung’ can’t be bothered.” GAMES&GADGETS Campus Circle > Culture > Gaming While other movie-licensed games would accept the straightforward hack-and-slash gameplay, “Clash of the COVERS NOT Titans” actually does have some neat additions that make it stand out from the action-genre crowd. While many post- “God of War” games have used quick-time events, this game TO JUDGE BY ties it in to weapon leveling. To improve your weapons, you must use quick-time events to kill monsters with their own e ven If It makes Sense weapons. As such, while you can get through most of the game just smashing the attack buttons, you can only gain the byCT S oT beLL strongest forms of your weapons by playing strategically. Entertainment Turner TM & (c) The other great decision in the making of this game is to y ears oF gaming can teach a player When borrow from the original cult film that inspired the uninspired “Clash of the Titans” stands out from the action-genre crowd. to just put the game back on the store shelf. It may go against remake. Some of the monsters were designed to move with the old rules of kindergarten but with games averaging around extremely jerky motion that calls back to the stop-motion aggressive fish. As the game goes on, the fish get bigger, the 60 bucks, it usually pays to know what makes a bad game. animation in the classic film. The game also incorporates waters go deeper and you still keep collecting treasures. On Of course, this does mean that you might just miss out Bubo the mechanical owl, in a central support role despite the surface (no pun intended) it seems fairly dull.