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...leading anticensorship advocate, provoked strong teactions from the crowded audience. Moderator Susan Suleiman's attempt to restore order during the question and answer period was overridden by a Cantabrigian majority intent on using the session as a forum for debating next month's referendum on the MacKinnon-Dworkin anti-porn bill...
...following morning's session began, of necessity, with an announcement of strict game rules for running the talks. Also up for grabs was the related controversy over the oncampus showing of porn movies during MIT's registration week. The generally volatile climate--marked by cheering and hissing--inspired at times vicious perversions in logic whose extremes resulted in hardcore rhetoric. One MIT student asked, "what if a woman doesn't mind being cut up in little pieces...
...depicted as feminist chic. The prevailing themes of conflict are now heard through a polyphony of women's voices--straight, gay, and other--marking the shift in strategy from reactionary to constructive politics. Millet's comment that women should focus their energies on "creating eroticism rather than fighting porn" drew loud applause from a packed audience consisting of scholars, housewives, critics, social workers, professionals, conservatives, students, and lesbians, in addition to radical feminists and men--strange bedfellows...
...recognized by the political and legal system. One alternative which arose during discussion following Saturday morning's slide show panel concerned the possibility of unionizing the sex industry. A representative from a group called "No Bad Girls, Only Bad Laws" spoke out on behalf of the prostitutes and porn actresses who would be directly affected by legislation, driving the industry further underground...
There are certain inalienable rights, and of course freedom of choice and expression rank high among them. Ideally no vote should result in the removal of such rights, but oftentimes a public confused by demagoguery does just that. Cambridge officials were right to withhold the anti-porn measure from a public referendum. They are still right even if, as the majority contends, the measure would have certainly failed, in court if not on the ballot. In fact it is their duty as elected officials to protect the public from voting away a liberty...