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- From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
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- Subject: Re: Dworkin as social-constructionist (was Re: what is a man-ha
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 19:26:53 PST
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- Tom Lord writes:
- >>Well, you know Tom, I don't think the fact that I might enjoy
- >>watching gay porn is, 1) any of Andrea Dworkin's business, or
- >>2) *is* violence against women, as Dworkin would have us
- >>believe.
- >Why don't you meet her arguments, instead of her conclusions?
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- Because the conclusions are utterly ludicrous? Not to mention
- *OFFENSIVE* in the extreme -- Dworkin's assertion that gay male
- porn is degrading to women because one of the men is playing a
- female role is simple proof that she's as ignorant and bigoted
- towards gay men as she feels straight men are against women.
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- () The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of
- () violence used in democratic societies.
- () -- R. A. Pinker
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- [> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
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