Porn!

[featherynscale]

After reading some pretty intense stuff on the flist about people's pornography addictions and the other associated evils of porn today, I am left with a single stupid question that is completely out of place in the original thread:

Why doesn't anybody ever complain that porn objectifies/degrades/devalues men? (I mean, provided that there are men in the porn. Obviously, lesbian porn doesn't objectify men, but, you know.)

(Also, can you tell it's a slow day? I can.)

Comments

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

Well, porn is degrading to women and exploits women because women are the weaker sex and need to be sheltered and protected, and can't take any responsibility for their actions, because their choices are always made by the men around them. Porn doesn't do the same to men becuase men are naturally dominant and have stronger wills than women and have control over the women around them.

If the fucking Dworkinite twits would look at the assumptions that fuel their invective against porn, they'd see hoe circular their logic is and how all their theories created to 'free' women from male dominance are actually reinforcing feminine victim mentality.

::seethes::

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Beautifully put. This is something that's been bugging me for a while.

Mostly because I dated someone who used to work for a very christian anti-porn group, and though she'd left it a long time ago, kept many of the same thoughts on it.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Hey now -- a woman without logic is like a fish without a bicycle!

Or, um, something like that. Keep in mind I slept through Modern Feminist Theory as well as Gentility and Grace class at college.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wait. That's not right.
Also, now that Randy Naked is going co-ed, are they keeping Gentility and Grace? Because I think that's something everybody should get, regardless of body type.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that's still too sore of a subject for me to answer reasonably. Fucking Board of Trustees Traitors.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sorry to bring it up, then.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Eh. If you hadn't, someone else would have... oh, speak of the devil, in between your two comments someone else did. Another email from the interim president asking me for money. Fuck that. All of my money goes to Gaia and Exeter from now on. (Hey, it's a good thing for GC at least.)

Hmmm... I think I'll take my crankeh ass off to bed now. No further good shall be gotten out of tonight.

[duriyah.livejournal.com]

Excellently put!

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Right up there with defining "sexism" in such a way that it only means "male on female gender-based bigotry."