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Levy criticized the pornographic video series Girls Gone Wild after she followed its camera crew for three days, interviewed both the makers of the series and the women who appeared on the videos, and commented on the series' concept and the debauchery she was witnessing. Just before Thanksgiving 2012, Ariel Levy, a staff writer at The New Yorker, flew to Mongolia to report on that country’s mining boom. Levy also characterizes raunch cult… What Brain Imaging Reveals About Readers. That’s the problem with identity politics, isn’t it? I am so glad I have this relationship but it didn’t make me any less sad that my last marriage ended. I do think I was addicted, too, to lust and experiences. My affair was retaliating for Lucy’s addiction, and I was working out my own issues, too. When I think about how scary it is to let your kid do something when you know it’s not going to be safe, I marvel at my mother. Penelope Green and Ariel Levy discuss divorce, miscarriage, and waves of feminism. I’m not sure I make that clear in the book. In Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy attempts to reconcile her personal views of feminism with its portrayal in popular culture. Her new book is Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. I’m in love, my parents are alive, I have my health, I have my friends, I have a lot. She really meant never to depend on anyone for your livelihood. What I have in the works is reporting. It’s a bummer. They have already been taught through music videos, reality TV, My Space, etc., that part of the job of being a … Ariel Levy is a contributing editor at The New Yorker magazine, where she recently wrote about the life and death of feminist Andrea Dworkin. In 2005, Ariel Levy came out with Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch … If the work we produce here at Feminist Current is work that you value and support, please consider donating. I’m not sure it would work for anyone. She read the memoir first. AL: The huge thing my mother gave me was that from the time I was little was that she always said of course you’re going to be a writer. It didn’t work for my father and it didn’t work for me, but it worked for them. After the first year post-divorce when we were viciously angry, we’ve been so nice to each other. "Ariel Levy has become feminism's newest and most provocative voice." I think that I was operating from sort of frenzied place. Andrea Dworkin, April 20, 1990. It’s what I always wanted, and I got it. There is a new dominatrix in town. What changed is that instead of piecing something together from other people’s experiences, I was trying to extract the truth from my own experience, and I liked doing that. You can’t stop doing something that is bad for you and bad for your life. I could have had a kid anytime; most of my colleagues, female colleagues, Janet Malcolm, big talented writers, they had children. Photo: Elsa Dorfman. And I tried to control it. That’s a pretty solid foundation to draw on. The title of Ariel Levy’s book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, seems at first a paradox. The experiences in this book show how I aimed for the illusion of control, and how I was disabused of those illusions in all sorts of ways. If it were up to me, obviously, my son would be four years old right now, but I don’t get that choice. It was enough for me, for the time being, to write one memoir. They always say it’s a family disease, and we were in denial together. I have a lot of other things. According to Levy, raunch culture is a product of the unresolved feminist sex wars – the conflict between the women's movement and the sexual revolution. But if you know her name, it’s probably because you’ve read her 2013 article … I cannot stand this. I’m proud that I’ve done that. 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