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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Censorship - the greatest hypocracy of feminism.
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 02:33:09 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 02:33:09 1985
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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This has always amazed me.  Many feminists call themselves pro-choice
(like myself) when it comes to a certain other issue.  They're known
to say things like "People should't shove their personal morality down
other people's throats." and "It's my body and I can do what I want with
it."  Yet an even stronger phrase like, "It's my mind and I can do what I
want with it!" means nothing to some of these people, for they would
join the ranks of the book-burners.

Of course this time, they say they can point to studies that show a coorelation
between certain types of literature and a greater tolerence for violence.
So that's enough to ban, right?

I have news, and it's news you had better learn fast.  Don't say it's enough
to ban.  Don't give away such a powerful weapon to the enemy.  Here are
some examples of what might happen.

I don't say there is such a coorelation, but what if somebody showed
a relationship between women entering the workforce and increased male
unemployment.  What if a further coorelation showed up between increased
unemployment and various forms of violent crime, including rape?

What if somebody showed that women's lib was responsible for the increased
divorce rate.  What if they went further to say that the increased number
of "broken homes" has lead to an increase in violent crime.

Do these relationships exist?  Who knows and who cares?  Like me, you
would hopefully be saying, "There are some prices we just have to pay for
equality and freedoms."

Don't give the opponents of freedom this weapon.  Everything feminism
has built for women would have been impossible without freedom of expression.

Don't cut down the forest to get a better view of the trees.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473


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