Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker, sociologist and anti-porn activist Gail Dines-Levi, showed a graphic slide presentation linking male violence to images of women in the media and proceeded to advocate the censorship of most current sexual images of women--in magazines, films and advertisements...
Tactics of censorship, violent retaliation and rhetorical hatred will not accomplish those ends, nor will they succeed in furthering the goals espoused by Take Back the Night. Rather, Dines-Levi and others risk alienating those women who have fought to liberate their own sexualities as a means of fighting that very same oppression...
What is disturbing about Dines-Levi's appearance for Take Back the Night and the attendant discussion she prompted is the refusal to consider the social and political implications of advocating pornography's censorship. Inevitably, comparisons must be drawn about the similar tactics advocated by the censors of the Left and the censors of the Right...
...support and affirm a woman's right to control her own body and her own life is at the heart of the Women's Movement. Rape and sexual violence against women directly threaten those values; so does censorship of women's sexuality. Neither should be condoned...
...student body as a whole. The staff position is that the group should be held responsible for such a misinterpretation. The more sensible conclusion is that those who make the mistake of thinking HUSO represents the student body should be criticized. To conclude otherwise is to endorse self-censorship and discourage open and freewheeling debate...