do sites such as this one liberate women?

Question

Am I right in thinking women can express themselves more and be less inhibited- often in an openly sexual or erotic manner- without the hassles associated with meeting strangers?
Is this a good thing or does it reinforce stereotypes?

I think maybe my question should have been more specific, because it seems that a common agenda is to misinterpret and launch into an essay style Greeresque attack.
Maybe my question has already been answered by the 60's throwback retrograde gender divide promoters.

Answer 1

Women liberate women. And thoughtful men like you.

Answer 2

NO!!

1) Look at all the perverted questions on this forum. How liberating is that?

2) If a woman has to coward behing a computer in order to speak, how liberating is that?

3) Many young girls are encountering sexual conversations with pedaphiles. This liberates the pedaphile more than any woman.

Answer 3

For the most part, I don't think sites like this have any particular impact on something like how liberated women, as a whole, are.

Maybe some women feel freer to be "less inhibited" and say things such as you've described, but I have a feeling the same women would be equally uninhibited in their "real lives" as well.

For women to be expressing the stuff you describe isn't necessarily very liberating to women because that kind of talk is nothing more than someone's reducing themself to a lowest common denominator type of mentality - and that's not liberating.

What could potentially be liberating for women is to express intelligent, well thought, good ideas and answers on a site like this in order to, perhaps, stamp out some ignorance about women or to otherwise be a respectable example of how solid or capable or sensible or wise women can be.

These days our culture has brainwashed many people into believing that women must secretly have the same kind of sexuality than, say, 17-year-old boys do; and, as a result, many women have come to believe that they have to make themselves into copies of men (and their sexuality) in order to be "liberated". There are also many women who have been abused, and as a result grow up with an inappropriate view of their own sexuality.

Of course, this works out well for men (and maybe that's why certain Madison Ave types have perpetuated the lie or why people who market, say, the videos of a young, female vocalist will instruct a more wholesome girl to act sexier in order to sell the video). It can actually be more "inhibited" for someone like a young vocalist to play down her real strengths and intellect and sell her soul in order to sell CD's by being the falsely erotic person a marketing type tells her to be rather than being able to be herself. As a result, not only does she "inhibit" her own "personhood" but she contributes to the lie about women's "secret" sexuality (that is supposed to be just like men's) as well.

Sites like this may have the potential of contributing to the "liberating" of women, but not for the reasons or in the way you have suggested. I don't even think I'd go as far as to say such behavior reinforces any stereotypes. Its just kind of comes across as stupid and trashy and an indication of some mental problem to a lot of people.

For most women, given the opportunity to express themselves, the stuff you mentioned isn't even in their minds. Most women have ideas, issues, theories, beliefs, knowledge, wisdom and yes- complaints too. If women express these things then - yes - sites like this can be liberating. The kind of material you mention, however, has nothing to do with normal, well adjusted, women. The kind of stuff you've described isn't about someone's "expressing herself". Its about some woman or girl (or even some guy) who gets a kick out of the impact such words could have on a reader. They have something else going on other than "expressing themselves"..

Answer 4

This site hasn't liberated me. I always say what I think.

Answer 5

Yeah... They liberate women.... and children.