Book Report: Female Chauvinist Pigs

I just finished Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs, which was a great quick read. I've always admired Levy's work in New York magazine, and I was further intrigued when I saw these videos of her talking about the book. Levy touches on many really solid, insightful points that I can definitely agree with, but the book left my head spinning a bit. Her main beef is with the current style-over-substance view of sex in our society -- that looking and acting sexy is valued over actually feeling sexy. But many people of my generation, who grew up with images of Barbie and Pam Anderson and Britney Spears (pre-K-Fed) and Paris Hilton, have been programmed since childhood to think that is sexiness. And although we may realize the superficiality of it all, we simply have no other point of reference.