Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Vicious Ladies

The article is kinda BS, with typical tropes about teen girls gone wild, etc, but if you read between the lines there are some serious insights into the world of women to be gleaned. Specifically, how young girls use their attractiveness to exercise social power and control. A couple of key points stood out for me:
1) If you think that women use ASD in response to what MEN will think of them, guess again. According to the article, the fastest way to get kicked out of the crew is fuck a guy at a party. "ho's" and "trashy" girls get kicked out.
2) Look at the "Vicious Secret" Party Flyer. Innocent Disney Characters bending over lifting their skirts and showing their ass cracks and G-strings. There is also a flyer titled "Hello Pussy" showing Hello Kitty with huge tits…
Q: Why do these girls kick out sluts while advertising their get-togethers with sexually provocative images?
A: POWER.
These crews (and women in general) rely on sexuality to control their social circles. Specifically, they tease. As soon as one of the crew actually fucks a guy or guys, she undermines the power of the group, and is kicked out. Hence it is the dominant women in the group who exercise social control over the sexual behavior of the lesser members.
Just like feminists are fond of pointing out that rape is a crime perpetrated by men motivated by power and control, and not about sex per se, I'd say that the tease is a similar strategy used by women to gain social status and control over men.
I love going out to bars and watching this in action :-)
The tease is not about sex...and this is what AFCs fail to recognize. They chase the teaser mistaking her behavior as a sexual come-on rather than the power play it actually is. They then get angry when the girl leaves them with blue balls This leads to all sorts of problems from drunken fights to date rape.
If AFCs were better trained to recognize the tease for the ploy that it is, they could ignore it or use negs to negate it.

http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/flying-high-with-the-vicious-ladies/15404/

One of the most striking things in the article is just how much pressure the crew exerts on it's members. It must be crushing to be a girl on the fringes.:(
The article is outwardly about a young member of the crew who gets murdered. It amazing to me how callous the head of the crew is regarding this. She basically blames the girl for running with a different group!
As a side note, it is also interesting that the media, even the "alternative" media only focuses on the murder of a young woman is she is attractive or "cute".
The article reminded me of how tough women have it sometimes. If a woman is unattractive, her social options in life are pretty limited. If she is cute, but has a high sex drive and acts on it, she will be ostracized.

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