Word: dworkin
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...regulations at Rio, he sent an opposite message by passing the Clean Air Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The final absurdity is the GOP platform's endorsement of laws allowing victims of sexual violence to sue pornographers. What's next--a photo of Barbara Bush hugging Andrea Dworkin? Activist government: it's not just for liberals any more...
...current Massachusetts bill is the latest in a series of anti-pornography bills initiated by University of Michigan Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, a feminist writer...
MacKinnon and Dworkin co-authored anti-pornography city ordinances in Indianapolis and Minneapolis, which were ruled unconstitutional or repealed by local officials...
...similar MacKinnon-Dworkin bill was defeated in a 1985 Cambridge referendum...
True enough, First Amendment defenders answer, but the MacKinnon-Dworkin approach may be a cure worse than the disease. On dubious evidence, they say, the antiporn bills take aim at a secondary cause of female subordination and ignore the reality that woman-hating psychopaths have more often cited the Bible as inspiration. Beyond that, advocates of the antiporn bills seem blithely indifferent to the crippling cultural impact of legislation that places so much emphasis on the subjective views of crime victims. Porn, like beauty, may be in the beholder's eye. But it is a bad perspective for building good...