History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: Fucking creeps [View all]whathehell
(30,536 posts)not only rape, but pornography, violent porn especially, as well.
There is one part of the book that bears repeating. She mentions the protections
other groups, racial minorities, etc., get and that liberals quite rightly support, but she contrasts it
to the LACK of support those same liberals often give women, especially when it comes to porn.
The book was written in the late 1970's, before the internet, when "adult book stores"
were common. She formed a group called "Woman Against Pornography", and, she would
routinely take groups of women to these stores to show them JUST how vile and violent this porn was,
because women didn't know since they rarely patronized them. What they found were whole sections
devoted to "special" porn, like "Mutilation"...Yes, they actually had their own section.
In her book, she made a great point, IMO, when she said this, and I paraphrase just a tad:
Imagine that the adult book stores in Times Square were lined, not with the rape and torture of women,
for "entertainment", but the lynching of Blacks or the gassing of Jews...Do you think that would be tolerated"?
No, it wouldn't -- but the liberal mind set, so quick to make the connection between Little Black Sambo and Frito
Bandito and poor treatment of the groups represented by those characters, are fiercely obdurate when it
comes to the treatment of women. The "sin" of looking prudish or puritanical is the worst sin of all".
I thought she pretty well nailed it with this.