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...long shot. Tangled up in its claims and false analogies, it fails to provide nuance in its central criticism (after calling for more nuance from Catherine MacKinnon). Crucially, it fails to even mention the staggering levels of rape and male violence against women—MacKinnon??s “exhibit A” against pornography...
This critical misunderstanding about some presumed natural sexuality leads The Crimson Staff to claim that “MacKinnon??s brand of feminism” is “tired” and denies women’s sexual autonomy. Tired, as in, what? Rape is over? Tired, as in, this is just about those feminists who think women can’t be trusted to make decisions? And as to the false characterization that to theorists like MacKinnon “women are always victims” —who are we here, Ann Coulter? Where...
...MacKinnon??s interconnected and 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...
...MacKinnon??s critique of 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...