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From: berke@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: pornography, women, ERA
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 18:17:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 25 18:17:08 1985
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Reply-To: berke@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Berke)
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Yes, it's too bad the ERA didn't pass.  But it didn't.  Our society remains
one in which women are legally inferior to men.  Add to this the constant 
depiction of violence against women as valid social or sexual intercourse
and it becomes apparent that we have institutional and personal subjection of
women.  What is wrong with changing that?

Hasn't anybody else male noticed all these examples from, say a.i., of the 
John hit Mary variety?  If you are not aware of the physical, social, and 
economic persecution of women in this society you are not looking, and chances
are, you are male.

Regarding a previous posting, I believe there are laws against child porn.
There is little reason for laws against the degredation of men since men, in
general, do the degredation, and are not in fact victims of any degredation but
their own.

Peter Berke