Alternet: When the Babes Beat Up the Boys

Why has the image of a frenzied female attacking a callow guy become a media staple?

But shouldn’t the point of a feminist sexual revolution have been to make it ok—to make it fabulous—to have sex like women, whatever that might mean? What Bushnell was talking about wasn’t freedom, it was capitulation—agreeing to men’s terms in order to pre-empt disappointment. Women weren’t challenging the old idea of seduction as a contest between predator and prey—they were just demanding to play a new role.