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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This view of women is a particular kind of speech--an incitement to commit violence against women. The message could not be much clearer if there were posters all around campus proclaiming that sexual violence against women is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." This is the kind of speech which our Constitution has never protected without qualification (direct incitement to criminal violence). The courts have upheld other limitations of speech where direct harm of this kind (or actually, much less direct harm) has been shown. The question, as Catherine MacKinnon (an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota...
...women is not merely academic. Rape and sexual harassment are not the "extreme outgrowths" of this view of women, they are the natural result. Studies clearly show that pornography increases male subjects' acceptance of rape and sexual violence. Moreover, it clearly communicates that such violence is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." In fact, many of the most heinous sex crimes are performed using pornography as a text-book. Still closer to home, the Harvard study of sexual harassment among peers found that at least 2 percent of Harvard women had been raped by a fellow Harvard student (this does not include...
...facing up to facts--when will The Crimson itself stop supporting the dehumanization and sexual abuse of women by carrying ads for pornographic magazines (a tasteful seven pages distant from Ms. Idelson's article)? Like rape, pornography is based on the premise that male control of female sexuality is okay--in fact "more fun" (because violent) than sexual activity that is mutually agreed to. Pornographic magazines make female sexuality and male violent fantasy about it available at the flip of a page, no consent required...
...Grove Street Café and Summerhouse are just two of several hundred bring-your-own-bottle restaurants in New York City. Some of these establishments are ineligible to serve alcohol because they are within 200 feet of a church or school; others are waiting for the state bureaucracy to okay their license applications, a process that can take as long as a year...
...they set him up as a man who has gone crazy as a result of Vietnam (delayed stress) and is running around killing people. They implicate him in the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Germany and other important politicians, hoping that his "client" will reveal himself. Okay, so now we have our hero on the run; he's isolated from the people who sent him out (the ones he knew have all been killed and the others can't reach him) and he's got to bring down this maniacal organization in a few weeks before the world explodes...