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[–]onemoredaydream 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think you make a great point - in the popular culture's imagination, "strong woman" looks like a stripper. Women are only "strong" insofar as they can be unashamed of how sexual they are. There is no other axis of power given to women in popular imagination.

While women were oppressed for their sexuality, they were also oppressed in other, more pernicious ways - like the lack of cultural respect, the lack of women being able to be anything OTHER THAN a wife/mother or a "whore" (someone paid to be sexual).