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Lilmznicoleta
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: Moms Gone Wild

After much debateLink on whether our generation is being too promiscuous for ourown good (well mainly if it's good for females), older women seem to be imitating the same kind of behavior.

Apparently Link pole dancing is the new way for older women to get in touch with their sexual side (which they coudln't do previously) and get in shape.

<blockquote>“Their entire world is reduced to caretaking, and this is sort of the opposite of that,” she said. “It taps into this kind of exhibitionism, or show-womanship, among younger women who did not grow up with the gender politics of the sexual revolution.”</blockquote>

While some alarmists have tried to warn young women of the ostensible threat to marriage they pose by not settling down while young and possibly even fooling around casually, the response to the new trend for middle aged mothers seems to be really positive.

They embrace it because it helps them branch out of the caretaker role they feel they've been forced in and some psychologists are backing them up by saying that it improves their sex lives, and hence their marital satisfaction which in turn can decrease divorce rates.

However, you have to wonder how liberating something like this can be in the grand scheme of things. I don't really think it's negative if the women are doing it partially for the men Link because in relationships, it's okay to do something to please your partner, especially if you're getting pleasure from doing so. But the issue of how these women fit into the women's movement is worth noting.

While they are excited about embracing their new "freedom", they also come off condescending, a bit cold harded, elitist and completely ignorant to the major issues facing women all over.

<blockquote>"Some say exercise that echoes the acrobatics done by women who take their clothes off for a living is exploitative rather than empowering. But Ms. Shteir and Joan Price, the author of “Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty” (Seal Press, 2006), see a clear difference between middle-class, middle-aged women choosing to give parties in their homes and women pushed by poverty into potentially dangerous or demeaning work.</blockquote>

So, in other words, when they're doing it, it's about empowering women, but when young girls act wild and crazy or when women are forced into degrading situations that they're making light of, it's a different story. But the irony of them glamorizing something that constantly degrades so many (poor) women in the name of women's empowerment doesn't seem to cross their mind.

All of the women were (middle) upper class stay at home mothers. I can appreciate women embracing their sexuality and I don't care in which ways they try do so, but maybe they should consider pursuing careers, or even hobbies, that can actually help improve conditions for women around the country or globe; they need to realize the women's movement is about much more than teaching your grandmother how to work a pole at a tupperware party inbetween pleasing your husband and shopping all day.