Don't Cha Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me

Just a few rebuttals on Wendy Shallit's column:

Some sort of pervasive pressure, apparently, requires "everyone who is sexually liberated . . . to be imitating strippers and porn stars."

I don't know anyone who aspires to become the next Annabelle Chong. Neither have I heard anyone telling me that they would love to emulate Natalie Portman's role during her strip scene in Closer. Pamela Anderson is more of a well-endowed celebrity to me than a woman role model.

What's so wrong with wanting to look good anyway? We all need to exercise a more and eat less anyway. Glamour magazine tells me that: Gwen Stefani works out three days a week for a hour. No wonder she's got killer abs. Beyonce Knowles eats six small meals a day consisting of fish, fruit and vegetables. She does strength training (leg lifts, stair steps and push ups) three times a week in addition to her routine of bike sprints and Pilates.

Women are vain. We've been vain since the beginning. We're not kickboxing and counting calories for you men. We just want to get into that pair of skinny jeans that Kate Moss reportedly bought three pairs of in Diesel. We're doing this for ourselves.

If male chauvinist pigs "regarded women as pieces of meat, we would outdo them and be Female Chauvinist Pigs: women who make sex objects of other women and of ourselves."

Ashton Kutcher and Mark Wahlberg were both underwear models for Calvin Klein. Tyson Beckford's naked upper body was plastered on many male and female magazines to advertise Ralph Lauren's Polo Sport fragrance for men. These are examples of men being used solely for their outward appearance.

I quote from Virginia Henley's Tempted:

"Ram was wise enough not to go for her sensitive nipple. Instead he curved his warm fingers around the delicious swell of her breast and cupped it in his palm....As his insistent hands removed her shift, she was aware of his sex, hard and throbbing against her bottom cheek...whispering wanton words into her ear as his hand stroked down across her hip and belly, seeking the secret, scented place that shielded her woman's centre."

Now if that's not porn I don't know what is. Videos of Paris Hilton just don't hit the right buttons on women the way trashy romance novels do. Women prefer reading their porn rather than watching it. It's a more intellectual choice anyway since we do leard a few new words along the way.

My women role models are Aung San Suu Kyi, Condoleeza Rice and yes, The Pussycat Dolls. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since May 2003. Her crusade for democracy in Myanmar is really something. Condoleeza Rice is Secretary of State to the US government. That's really something as well, considering the fact that she's African American and also a woman. As for The Pussycat Dolls, well, they're just really hottttt.