Packaging abuse of women as entertainment for adults
Sun, 2008-01-27 05:46
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rural - Francesca
Packaging abuse of women as entertainment for adults
Sun, 2008-01-27 05:46
#2
rural - Francesca
[url=http://www.thestar.com/living/article/296391]Packaging abuse of women as entertainment for adults[/url]
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According to the Internet Filter Review, worldwide porn revenues, including in-room movies at hotels, sex clubs and the ever-expanding E-sex world, topped $97 billion in 2006. That's more than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink.[snip]
That's a lot of women who, for whatever their reasons, and most likely they are economic, are being tortured.
That's a lot of sticky keyboards.
There's a huge market for the domination of women.
Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been tracking the trend for years. In his new book Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, he writes with alarm about how the "cruelty line" in mass-market pornography is driving up. At the same time, the "normalization" line – "the measure of the acceptance of pornography in the mainstream of contemporary culture" – is also up, sharply.
"If pornography is increasingly cruel and degrading, why is it increasingly commonplace instead of more marginalized?" he writes. "In a society that purports to be civilized, wouldn't we expect most people to reject sexual material that becomes evermore (sic) dismissive of the humanity of women? How do we explain the simultaneous appearance of more, and increasingly more intense, ways to humiliate women sexually and the rising popularity of the films that present those activities?"
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As a result, society, especially its younger members who can't remember a non dot-com time, is increasingly accepting of the systematic debasement of women. It's probably why more young women participate in their own exploitation and abuse and it's also why, at least according to online discussions I have seen, many young men think going through the back door on a first date is normal.
Sun, 2008-01-27 09:15
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Jensen:"In a society that purports to be civilized, wouldn't we expect most people to reject sexual material that becomes evermore (sic) dismissive of the humanity of women?
Not if we understood civilization's link with colonization... where the colonizer's degree of civilization is directly proportional to the quantity of nations and groups he dismisses to the extent that they are civilized... by him!
Part of sexism seems to be oppression taken within the oppressor's class/race group, which the liberal view fails to understand, steeped as it is in its conviction that Whites only "other" the "ethnic" and the extremely poor, not people within it family, in both senses.
A terrifying sloppy correlation, within that article:
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Antonia Zerbisias writes, in "Packaging abuse of women as entertainment for adults" (Star, Jan 26): "...there are data that suggest a correlation between the amplification of "gonzo porn" and media violence and a concurrent drop in rapes and violent crimes, at least in the U.S. It could very well be that the more women choke almost to death on screen, the fewer of them do in real life."
My response to the Star: "Or the fewer such rapes are reported. Another explanation to this alleged 'drop' is that pornography normalizes the abuse of women and youths to the point that victims do not feel entitled to speak up anymore, or that male authorities take less and less seriously reports of behaviour they themselves get off on."
[ 27 January 2008: Message edited by: martin dufresne ]
Sun, 2008-01-27 09:46
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remind
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Originally posted by martin dufresne:
[b] My response to the Star: "Or the fewer such rapes are reported. Another explanation to this alleged 'drop' is that pornography normalizes the abuse of women and youths to the point that victims do not feel entitled to speak up anymore, or that male authorities take less and less seriously reports of behaviour they themselves get off on."[/b]
Two good observations martin and I believe this violent porn is HATE spreading against women, and it should be viewed as such
Sun, 2008-01-27 16:05
#5
saga
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Originally posted by remind:
[b]
Two good observations martin and I believe this violent porn is HATE spreading against women, and it should be viewed as such[/b]
As someone above said, if the women are virtually enslaved to do such films, it is hardly consensual. It IS violence and hatred toward women ... the women kidnapped to make the films.
Sun, 2008-01-27 16:21
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remind
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Originally posted by saga:
[b]As someone above said, if the women are virtually enslaved to do such films, it is hardly consensual. It IS violence and hatred toward women ... the women kidnapped to make the films.[/b]
Not just to the women kidnapped, but all women! The dissemination of this shit, desensitizes the persons viewing, normalizes the violence, and objectifies women to the point where they can be treated however the man wants. It is the spreading of hate, and nothing more.
Sun, 2008-02-03 05:39
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I guess this is one reason that I [b]still[/b] don't feel like a 'grown up'.... [i]adult entertainment[/i] certainly doesn't appeal to my sensibilities.
I also agree that porn is getting normalized. I used to want to find the distinction between erotica and porn. I'd hoped to find somewhere in this huge industry where I could be safely sex-positive. Not only does that seem less likely, its like porn is encroaching more into daily life.
Maybe I've gotten too sensitive in the past few years, but I cringe when someone refers to cooking shows as 'food porn'.
Sun, 2008-02-03 07:20
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Two good observations martin and I believe this violent porn is HATE spreading against women, and it should be viewed as such
so, you believe that there is non violent, non mysoginist porn?
Sun, 2008-02-03 08:33
#9
remind
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Originally posted by CMOT Dibbler:
[b]so, you believe that there is non violent, non mysoginist porn?[/b]
Yes, but it was years ago now since I have observed any like it. It was definitely porn, but is was of a comedic bent, and it actually mocked misogynist porn itself and there was no violence, nor power over another, contained within its framing.
So, I believe there could be, but it is not evident in today's pornography.