Admittedly w/o RTFA, this is a crock. Girls do not “reluctantly endure” the hookup culture anymore than boys do (albeit a decidedly male oriented culture to particpate in). If you have a positive self identity and strength of character you make your life what you want it to be. Self determination. Take responsibility for your own conduct.

\Wah, I blame society for my downfall

Actually, I think it’s a good article. Very well written. I agree with the point Tap’s making, but I think the intention of the article was different.

The point I take from it is that women who championed progressive thinking about girl’s sexuality, birth control, abortion did not do so with the intention that girls be used sexually and thrown away. She points out that a lot of girl’s who are involved with group sex have to drink heavily beforehand, showing that they’re not embracing sex, but terrified of it.

Sort of in summary: sexual liberation isn’t gangbanging in the locker room with a crowd watching. Earlier generations may have had it wrong with keeping girl’s sexuality under lock-and-key, but the opposite extreme is just as unnatural.

I think the article is more scolding of that sort of behavior than making girls out to be victims. but that was just my take.

I like the description of today’s overparenting (like my friend’s do with their daughters):

her extended girlhood made into a frantically observed and constantly commemorated possession of her parents

When I see my friends’ daughters, off at college, updating their every move on Facebook and the parents commenting on it, I realize that things are very very different than they were when I was young.

Sorry for all the typos in that.