When anti-feminists attack!

This genre reflects societal trends and how women are viewed in our post-feminist culture. It’s the logical conclusion of the sexual revolution officially announced in the ironically titled “Summer of Love” 40 years ago.
The girl fights dramatize the reality behind “free love”; they display the insecurity, competitiveness and hostility that the sexual revolution has wrought. The recent trend began with girls kissing each other, as they do in “Girls Gone Wild” videos, a display made more commonplace by the infamous Madonna-Britney Spears staged tongue tango in 2003.
Both Madonna and Spears have provided the raw material for much “scholarship” for feminist professors, who have made careers of analyzing such displays of assertive sexuality as evidence of women’s “empowerment.”
As women became more sexually “free,” they had to up the ante to attract men, hence girl fights over men (at least in men’s imaginations). The young man on a college campus today is surrounded by young women, often dressed provocatively. He has his pick because today nearly two-thirds of undergraduates are female.

Grabar then (oh-so-seamlessly) mentions the boy-crisis, then the Duke case, which leads into how silly feminist classes are, which give way to an argument about how feminism has led to sexual aggressiveness in men, and then ends…well, perfectly.

Rather than being “progressive,” however, the cult of free love signaled a return to the pagan ethos, where women, while still in that narrow window of their prime, vied for the attention of men then were discarded…Funny, when cleavage-baring, twenty-something news anchors look perplexed by footage of girl fights. I’d like to tell them: This all started with your mother’s feminist movement.