You’re a slut and people are making fun of you

Jennifer Baumgardner has a great piece up on Alternet today critiquing Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs. It’s a must read.
Feminism Is a Failure, and Other Myths argues that Levy is right to discuss the difficulties negotiating feminism and sex, but that her blame tactics are counterproductive:

Levy swings hardest at this conflict in her book, arguing that the daughters of feminism’s second wave are eager to prove how beyond sexism they are, “making sex objects of other women — and of themselves.” These women, according to Levy, “think they are being brave… and funny” but Levy thinks “the joke is on them.”
…Unlike Susan Faludi or Naomi Wolf, who critique the way society has dealt with feminism, Levy places most of her blame on women, especially young women.
…Intentional or not, Levy contributes to that mean finger, pointed only at girls, that says “You think you are being sexy, you think you’re cool and powerful, but you’re not. You’re a slut and people are making fun of you.”

Ouch.