Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution Page #7

Um...

Yeah, drinking without--

God, I've been so scared

of getting drugged.

-[Farrah] Yeah.

-[Kimmy] Is that a legitimate fear?

[Farrah] That's a fear for me too.

That's a legitimate fear,

I feel, definitely.

So, having fun is pretty much

not having to worry.

-I'm like holding my glass like this.

-Yeah.

I'm like dancing like, "Oh, yeah,

Try to get through my fingers, a**hole."

Yeah, I don't even know where we're going,

so I think we're just going

to go and figure that out,

and just kind of follow a crowd.

[upbeat music playing]

Keep moving. Hey.

[Kimmy] OK, OK.

[Farrah] All right.

Whoo!

[indistinct conversations]

[man] More girls in bikinis. I love it.

Hola.

[Farah] So, we were involved

in a bikini dancing contest.

And he started, like,

spraying us with, like--like oil.

[Kimmy] I was like...

I just walked out of the bathroom,

I mean, he's like spraying me.

[Farrah] No warning, no warning.

She's talking and he just, like,

starts spraying her without--

And like... and I was like, "Oh."

Yeah, and all of us were just like,

"What's happening?"

And he's just like,

"Rub it in, rub it in."

Is that funny?

I'm gonna do it back to you later.

[Kimmy] Yeah, let's do it to you.

Watch your back. I'll see you later.

[Kimmy laughs]

[Kimmy] It seemed way more staged now.

At that point, it was more effort,

it wasn't just like,

"Here's some spring break girls

doing a dance."

Like, we're putting effort into

making you look a certain way.

OK.

So basically you're going

to dance for 10 seconds. [chuckles]

After those 10 seconds,

the people are going to decide

who the winner is. All right. So, dance.

Of course you can show

a little bit more if you want.

Please don't take your bottoms off.

-If you want, you can take your top off.

-[woman] Oh!

[man] You don't have to if you don't want,

but if you do,

of course then people are going to make

way more noise for you.

-[woman] The boys?

-[man] The boys. All right, let's go.

[Kimmy] In the beginning,

it was kind of excitement,

then it turned to anxious, uh,

kind of stressed.

Didn't know what was going to happen.

It was just so many people,

-it was very intimidating at that point.

-[crowd cheers]

[man] So, we're going to start things out

with a bikini contest.

We got one, two, three, four,

five, seven, eight girls

that are going to dance for all of you.

[crowd cheers]

All right, so we're going to go

with the first girl.

Where's contestant number one?

All right, so, senorita,

your name and where you're from?

My name is Kimmy and I'm from California.

[crowd cheering]

[upbeat music plays]

[man] Girl, come on. Come on.

Shake that ass. Shake that ass.

And shake it, shake it, shake it, girl.

Three, two, one.

Thank you.

OK, all right, I just need them to see

exactly what I saw.

So, turn around and do like this.

[crowd cheers]

All right, that's good. [chuckles]

Everybody give it up

for contestant number one.

Come on!

[cheering]

[Kimmy] I felt pretty nervous at first.

But once the music started going on,

I mean, if I hear a good beat,

I can dance to it.

Uh. I-- On one hand, I felt empowered,

but then once it was over,

he was like, "OK, wait, wait.

No, come back.

Like, turn around and, like, squat down

and so they can see what I see."

And I was like, "OK," so I did it.

But at that time, it was...

it wasn't my choice to do that,

he was suggesting that

and putting that on me,

and that didn't feel natural at all

and that didn't feel empowering to me.

[indistinct chatter]

[man] Who thinks contestant number one

should be in the final?

[cheering]

Contestant number six?

[cheering]

Senoritas, thank you so much.

You can come back here.

[man] Number six!

Lights off!

[Kimmy] The bikini contest was

such a testament to our lives.

We're standing and being

compared all the time,

and being shamed because

our comparison is not--

we're not the same.

And it starts even when we're young,

when these guys are... you know,

they're going through puberty

and they have their hormones,

and they see these girls

on magazine covers

who I hadn't even noticed.

And then I'm like,

"Oh, my God, she's so hot."

I'm like, "Why is she hot?"

Like, "I think she's pretty."

Like what is-- Like why?

"Like, look at her tits

and look at her abs,

like oh my, God, she's perfect.

I want a girl like that."

And then you're like, "Well, OK."

[chuckles] I'm like, "All right."

And then it just gets worse

as you get older,

and it's constantly a comparison.

And the comparison

that we're always getting is one look.

And I think that's why

we're so susceptible to it.

That one thing influenced me even now,

because I'm constantly thinking back

to that one time where I'm like,

"Oh my God, she's sexy.

How do I get that?"

[Gail Dines] Let's take a young girl

and think about what does it

mean that, you know,

you're on the cusp of puberty,

you're trying to figure out

what it means to be female.

And you're looking around the culture

and what's coming at you is Beyonce,

Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus.

And in comes Cosmopolitan with its help

of "Ten Easy Ways

to Make Him Remember You."

Today, the culture is saying

if you behave a certain way,

act a certain way, dress a certain way,

then you are an empowered young woman.

This, my love,

has been the year of the booty,

and you are miss booty.

Oh, thank you.

[Jennifer Lopez] You know,

you can be sexy, and beautiful,

and it is very empowering,

I feel like, for women.

Oh my gosh, look at her butt

Oh my gosh, look at her butt

[woman] I personally, it doesn't bother me

that she gets up there

and twerks in a thong.

You know, if you can do, hey.

[Sut] Any part of popular

culture in one sense

tells the same story

around female sexuality,

which is female sexuality

is the key component

of what it means to be a female.

You know, an individual image

only makes sense

in terms of what else surrounds it.

If one image by itself, you know,

was surrounded, then,

by other images that showed women

in a wider variety of roles,

there would be nothing wrong

with that one image.

But when that one image is surrounded

by another image

that looks exactly the same,

looks exactly the same,

looks exactly the same,

and that is only about one aspect of what

women's identities could be,

that's when I think these images

will then start to take a real hold,

because it normalizes the idea

that to be a regular girl

means to act in this way.

'Cause I just

Want to look good for you

Good for you, oh, oh

I just want to look good for you

Good for you, oh, oh

Let me show you

How proud I am to be yours

Leave this dress a mess on the floor

And still look good for you

Good for you, oh, oh

[Kim Biddle] When you've accepted

the belief

for yourself as a--as a young girl

that my value equates my sex appeal,

then you begin to act on that belief,

and you begin to then

need to compete and vie

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