Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: uunet!igor!rutabaga!jls@ncar.ucar.EDU (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: If you misunderstood the question regarding erotica... Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 19:37:29 GMT References: <3041@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> Lines: 40 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu >I find your attitude annoying, too. There is a difference between >interesting and different sex and the representation of it being >forced on someone But who is it being forced on? Is your SO making you READ Playboy, or does its mere existence bother you? >Sounds to me like you've never been in a relationship where both >people's feelings need to be taken into consideration. Not true: I simply try to involve myself with people with whom I'm compatible as possible, so that the need to compromise is minimized. >THANK YOU!!! THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO KNOW. You're welcome! Enjoy! :-) >And here again, I'm not being a prude, it was >very clever of you to put in the "consensually," and "mutual >satisfaction" above. You know that wasn't Dworkin's point. Actually, I'm honestly convinced that IS Dworkin's point. She seems unable to distinguish consensual sexuality she doesn't understand from non-consensual sexuality. That makes her a fanatic, and a prude, and a threat to those of us who happen to enjoy things she doesn't. I can't HELP but feel threatened by her, any more than a black can help feel threatened by a white supremacist. It always SO easy to discriminate against those in the minority. >*Sigh* Ask a simple question...... Things are never as simple as they seem. P.S. I apologize for the extrapolations from what you wrote to what I thought you wrote. Everybody has hot buttons: the anti-porn movement presses many of mine. -- ***** DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are my own, except in the realm of software engineering, in which case I've borrowed them from incredibly smart people.