Word: sexualism
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...talk sponsored by Harvard Men Against Rape and the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, Dines asserted that we live in a “culture completely hijacked by corporate culture.” The degree to which we have been victimized is so great, that we cannot even see the ways in which pornography has infiltrated our lives. Expressing similar sentiments at the Feminist Anti-Pornography Conference earlier this year, Dines despaired: “Everywhere we go, we are bombarded with the droppings of the pornography industry. Our lives are overwhelmed by images that scream misogyny...
...entertaining two hours, but she is hardly a beacon of insight on the subject of porn and culture. Hers is the wearying rhetoric of the worst sort of feminism, a strange collision of puritanical morality and radical politics. She’s right that American society is increasingly sexualized (though we remain much more publicly chaste than many other Westernized countries), but to attribute a loosening of female sexual mores to porn is illogical, sexist, and degrading. For those who ascribe to Dines’ school of thought, a woman who beautifies herself or pursues men is motivated subconsciously...
...wants to have sex. While a society devoid of meaningful sex would be troubling, Dines dares to deny women agency to make that choice. Some porn may be gross, but it has not caused a cultural pandemic. On the contrary, one could argue that it is the loosening of sexual mores—female and male—that has given way to the growth of the pornography industry...
...ready to declare victory. The Church's current foe, as he sees it, is still in the heart of Europe and still atheist in nature: a sort of post-Socialist, anything-goes brand of Utopia that Benedict calls "relativism" - and disparages as the root of everything from loose sexual mores to a breakdown of the traditional family to runaway capitalism...
...What about the idea that feminists have fought for progress in the office and this reduces women to sexual objects...