tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post1284909906686499156..comments2024-03-13T11:14:26.768-04:00Comments on A Radical Profeminist: A Pop Quiz on Dishonesty, Deception, and Trickery Among Heterosexually Active MenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-91128815010868186732009-11-06T19:17:14.476-05:002009-11-06T19:17:14.476-05:00Thank you for that, Jennifer.
Among the top ten f...Thank you for that, Jennifer.<br /><br />Among the top ten fucked up euphemisms for atrocity, one would have to be "sex tourism".<br /><br />(And some women are born with AIS, which can mean they are "male" chromosomally, at least.)<br /><br />For more on what Jennifer is saying, I recommend reading two books by Sheila Jeffreys:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Prostitution-Sheila-Jeffreys/dp/1876756675/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257552786&sr=1-3" rel="nofollow"><i>The Idea of Prostitution</i></a> and<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Vagina-Political-Economy-Global/dp/0415412331/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257552786&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow"><i>The Industrial Vagina</i></a>.Julian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-49714233550461631712009-11-06T14:38:15.188-05:002009-11-06T14:38:15.188-05:00Whilst all prostitution and pornography does not d...Whilst all prostitution and pornography does not directly equate with rape - all prostitution and pornography enforces this - that certain human beings: women and girls being the majority of course - are dehumanised creatures whose sole role is to be men's and boys' masturbatory objects. <br /><br />Because according to the great white male - human beings are all male and furthermore only certain males are fully human, whereas others depending on their class, sexual identity, race, ethnicity, ableness/disableness are accorded an inferior position to the 'great white male.' <br /><br />But even within these categories women and girls are accorded a far lesser position because despite their race, class, sexual identity, ethnicity, ableness/disableness all women share one biological aspect and that is they are all born female - not male.<br /><br />Quite right the dynamics of how and why prostitution is a global issue varies according to differing societies and cultures but the main aspect remains the same. Namely innumerable women and girls must be made available for men and boys to masturbate into or on their bodies. <br /><br />Female poverty is one reason for prostitution but eliminating poverty does not eliminate prostitution or pornography, because once again prostitution and pornography flourishes because men demand it and boys learn that pornography reinforces what they are taught - that being a 'real man' means adhering to and internalising the misogynistic belief that men because they are biologically male automatically accords them a higher value and respect than any human who is born female.<br /><br />So because men as a group have been accorded social and economic power for centuries any challenge to their power is viewed as 'man-hating' and a violation of men's sex rights. Challenging male power is very difficult because it is commonly invisible and accepted rather than challenged or critiqued.<br /><br />I have yet to read or hear of innumerable women demanding male prostitutes be made available for them to rape and/or commit sexual violence against and one reason is because our society is male-dominated and male-controlled. Also, women have been taught for centuries now their 'role' is to support men, wherein it is women's duty to provide emotional, physical and sexual caregiving to the male. <br /><br />Until such time as women as a group are not only acknowledged but accorded full human status then the usual excuses/denials will continue in respect of prostitution and pornography. <br /><br />Because only men are human this explains why so many cannot view women and girls as human but instead are viewed as 'dehumanised sexualised commodities.' We have to thank capitalism for globalising prostitution and ensuring the innumerable male tourists who travel to developing countries in order to rape and commit sexual violence against women and girls. But such male violence is not 'male violence' it is supposedly 'sex tourism' so that makes it acceptable.JENNIFER DREWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02112807166372869685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-60412900560401880322009-11-06T10:05:20.851-05:002009-11-06T10:05:20.851-05:00Also to anonymouse,
Prostitution has various forc...Also to anonymouse,<br /><br />Prostitution has various forces that propel it. Men's desire, will, and ability to use women as sexxx objects being chief among them.<br /><br />But in rich countries, like the U.S. there are many more forms of it than in poor countries. And so we'd better know about how prostitution functions in any society, what its parameters are, the extent to which economic impoverishment is the driving force, along with the one mentioned above.<br /><br />There are people here in the U.S. who argue prostitution is "liberating" which to me shows a great and committed callousness to knowing how prostitution functions worldwide, and even here, in the U.S., for most women and girls.Julian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-2853135452760925012009-11-06T01:37:11.218-05:002009-11-06T01:37:11.218-05:00Hi anonymouse,
I'm interested to know, are yo...Hi anonymouse,<br /><br /><i>I'm interested to know, are you saying that you equate all prostitution and pornography with rape?</i><br /><br />No. Not quite. And thanks for asking me to clarify this point.<br /><br />Each form of sexual exploitation has it's own dynamics, its own ties to capitalist patriarchy and white supremacy in somewhat different ways. It is largely the case that pornography is "prostitution on camera". It is overwhelmingly the case that girls and women who are coaxed or coerced or forced into prostitution and pornography are survivors of sexual violence of one form or another, usually as children.<br /><br />So when men look at these images, what they are seeing is the consequence of rape, pimping, and the greed of pornographers. And this ought not be "a turn on", as far as I'm concerned. And that it is a turn on for heterosexual men only means they have been so dehumanised that they can't see a degraded, dispossessed, exploited human being when she's staring them in the face. Not that he's ever looking at her eyes, mind you.Julian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-28732649343913045212009-11-05T22:26:52.364-05:002009-11-05T22:26:52.364-05:00I'm interested to know, are you saying that yo...I'm interested to know, are you saying that you equate all prostitution and pornography with rape?<br /><br />If so, why?anonymousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-67875840210478970822009-11-05T17:51:09.331-05:002009-11-05T17:51:09.331-05:00This was a very clever quiz. Thank the goddess I ...This was a very clever quiz. Thank the goddess I never had to deal with sex with men! Wow, was I lucky to have been a born lesbian or what!!<br /><br />This quiz would be good to be widely posted for all women to see, so that they can ask these kinds of questions. Just to see the looks on those men's faces would be worth a candid camera moment don't you think?vnoreply@blogger.com