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bain_sidhe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 11:00 PM
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104. Milk causes violence, too
It's a well-known fact that 98-99%* of all violent offenders drank milk at an early age. That's way too high a correlation to be mere chance, don't you think?

* Allowing for the 1-2% of infants with congenital lactose intolerance.

See how much fun "correlation = causation" can be?

I'm a woman, and a feminist, and I have no problem with porn for those who freely choose to consume or indulge in it. I do have a couple of problems related to porn though -

1) being the unwilling recipient of pornography. That is, having it *imposed* on me in a venue where I have no reasonable expectation of encountering it. I don't have to watch the Victoria's Secret show (and I don't), I don't have to go to websites offering porn, or buy books that include it. I don't have a problem with those things being available to people who DO want to see it. But I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that it not be imposed on me when there's no reason for me to expect to see/hear/encounter it.

2) what I call "pornolence" - where violence (usually against women, but not always) is presented as a form of sex. I hate that. It brings to mind the old, not quite accurate, saying that "rape isn't about sex, it's about power." Well, sure it's about sex. But it's about violence AS sex, rather than sex per se.
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