Find an example of a movement that you agree with presenting their issue or argument and describe how you would reframe it to appeal to a wider audience. Talk about why you made the change and how you hope it to be more effective.
The women's sexual liberation movement is one that I think could be reframed in order to gain a wider audience, and a more true response. Right now, the women's sexual liberation movement is... exploitive, because of an overt confusion of what it means to be "sexually liberated." Take for instance, the "Girls Gone Wild" enterprise, which goes to clubs, beach taverns and bars to videotape the partying, flirtation and sometimes flashing of women's breasts. A great article was written in 2006 about the founder of Girls Gone Wild, which provides enlightening information to what really goes on in front of and behind the camera.
Here is the link: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/06/magazine/tm-gonewild32
A more recent story about a girl who's shirt was forced down by another individual in the GGW crew is here:http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_30865bcc-95eb-11df-9734-00127992bc8b.html
Leaving the cult of domesticity and embracing the power of birth control, American women (mostly) have become jaded into believing that liberation from sexual constraints equals freely and unnecessarily hypersexualizing oneself (flashing or not). This could not be farther from the truth. While I do strongly believe in one's agency, I do not agree that in order to be liberated, one must do these acts which fourty- fifty years ago would have been absolutely taboo. Unfortunately, this is the perspective of several individuals in the first Girls Gone Wild article.
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