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When Harvard College administrators made the decision to cancel the Undergraduate Council (UC) Party Fund more than a month ago, the UC was up in arms. Much of its indignation amounted to little more than rhetoric and childish petulance. But the UC’s most salient argument has been overlooked until now. In the wake of the cancellation, UC members claimed that the College had overstepped its bounds since its decision violated the UC’s founding charter and constitution. Our examination of these documents bears out the UC’s argument. Whether or not one thinks...
...false characterization that to theorists like MacKinnon “women are always victims” —who are we here, Ann Coulter? Where are we, on CNN’s “Crossfire”? Why dumb down a complex and nuanced argument...
...empirically well-documented points about violence, male dominance, and social construction of sexuality led her to explain that women’s unequal place in a male-dominated society means that we can’t just treat “consent” as black and white. This argument has the nuance the Crimson lacks. Take the case of MacKinnon’s former client, Linda Boreman (better known as Linda Lovelace), of “Deep Throat” fame. Here is a woman who was beaten, raped, and prostituted by her husband, who actually held...
...pornography was incisive, painful, and singeing. Her question—what if women’s pervasive inequality (including rape, harassment, and battering) and pornography are intimately related?–should be on all of our minds, not dismissed as shock tactics. That is not fair to her argument, not fair to women, and not useful in achieving sex equality...
...editors: RE: “Pondering Porn,” editorial, Oct. 28, 2007 The editorial board’s response to Catherine MacKinnon’s speech on pornography in American culture does no justice to her argument. It is a misrepresentation to suggest that her approach consisted merely of “shock tactics.” The pervasive ties between the porn industry and illegal sex-trafficking, and the wide range of statistical evidence demonstrating that exposure to pornography increases an individual’s propensity to commit sex crimes, were but a few of the many...