Thoughts on: Hook-Up Culture

"Hook-Up Culture" written by Jack Grimes is a writing about a creative work because he analysis the Hook-Up Culture with narrative and story. His main argument about Hook-Up Culture is it is "where is it come from? And is it here to stay"; hook up culture should be gone.

His essay looks like well-developed and could persuade people to think hooking up culture is not good things. However, there are some elements in his essay that is not so compelling to us as persuasive. For example, when he defined Hook-Up Culture at the beginning as "an environment that expects casual sexual encounters that do not necessarily lead to anything further", the question is risen; how about one experienced a hook up and later on it leaded to something meaningful to him/her. All hook up is not meaningless, but there are some case that brings meaningful life. For example, my friend and her boyfriend has been together for almost 4 years and they love each other so much and they are thinking to get married next year. They are now happy, but how they met was hooking up. Thus, hooking up culture can lead something meaningful or happiness in many cases.

Also, he said "a women who embrace hooking up culture is simply making it easier for guys to treat her as a sex objects". I felt this is kind of racist opinion. Behind this argument, he has assumption that man can sees women as sex object whereas women don't. I disagree with this idea. SOme women see men as sex object too. I know a lot of people who just want to have good time with a lot of people, and not be in relationship.