Catharine MacKinnon talks to Jeffries about her war on porn

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Catharine MacKinnon talks to Jeffries about her war on porn

Postby CoolAunt » Mon May 22, 2006 4:45 am

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gender/story/ ... 83,00.html

Are women human?

In her new book, leading feminist Catharine MacKinnon argues that women are still treated more like "things" than people. She talks to Stuart Jeffries about her war on pornography - and whether men and women can ever really connect

Is pornography always wrong in MacKinnon's view? "If you actually think about it," she says, "what is sexual between people is, up close, not particularly visible. Therefore you have to do things to it to make it acceptable by a camera. So already there's an intrusion. Most people, when they are having an intimate experience, don't have someone hanging out with a camera there. And if there is someone hanging out with a camera, what is most intimate about that experience and most equal between the people is not accessible to that camera.

"If you've got that material being sold, there are people who are not intimate to the experience who are experiencing it. How equal is that? Your sex is being bought by somebody over there. You're now a thing in relation to people experiencing you sexually. How equal is that?"
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Postby CoolAunt » Mon May 22, 2006 4:50 am

And another one, not so flattering to MacKinnon, in the Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 95,00.html

By the way, I found those links here: http://community.livejournal.com/anti_porn/
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