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- From: nick@cs.uwa.oz.au (Nick Lewins)
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <nick.725181201@parma>
- Sender: usenet@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au
- Nntp-Posting-Host: parma
- Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
- References: <1992Dec22.085300.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:13:21 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <1992Dec22.085300.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au> ryanph@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au writes:
-
- >Since pornography is demeaning to women, ...
-
- >Recently, images of nude women chained up and tied up have graced the pages of
- >this 'news'group.
-
- >There are at least three reasons to remove this newsgroup and any others which
- >are similarly demeaning to women:
-
- > 1) The images are pornographic, not 'erotic': consult any of your
- >female colleagues for their opinions
-
- > * women are badly enough represented on computer networks without
- >further turning them away with the sexual harassment implicit in the
- >promulgation of such pornographic images.
-
- >If you think that the newsgroup is 'harmless fun': see what your female
- >colleagues, friends, wives, secretaries think ...
-
- >pornography generally is demeaning to women, ...
-
-
- I havn't looked, but I'm sure that there are pictures of men there
- too. Is pornograpgy not demeaning to men? Do men not have an opinion
- on what is 'erotic'? Isn't it pornography in general that you are
- complaining about, not just the pornography which depicts/demeans
- women?
-
- I don't want to get into the censorship issue; I just want to point
- out that your argument "Pornography is demeaning to women, therefore we
- should ban it" seems one-eyed. Perhaps it should be "Pornography is
- demeaning to people, therefore we should ban it"?
-
- Nick.
-