Comments on: Interesting Conversation Between Anti- and Pro-Porn Feminists

By: MsNaughty

MsNaughty — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:02:56 +0000

Thanks for directing me to this link. I’m a pornographer and a feminist, and I was definitely on Annie’s side. Like you Regina I couldn’t help but feel that Mae’s stance is based on both prejudice and ignorance. She’s made a lot of assumptions about porn and the women involved and her views are colored by a dislike of men. It’s a shame that anti-porn views is still considered to epitomise feminism for many people.

As usual Annie works magic through her amazing ability to empathise and be non confrontational. I saw her in Sydney over 10 years ago and she’s still my hero.

By: regina lynn

regina lynn — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:28:14 +0000

Both Susie and Mae call themselves “feminists,” so I did too.

But yeah – to me, feminism pretty much means “women are people, not livestock.” Everything else associated with it is extra and often personal to the person.

By: Neeneko

Neeneko — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:11:28 +0000

I have found that feminism, just like any other ‘taking power back’ movements, there will always be groups that picture their own little group being the ones that receive the authority that used to be held by someone else… so basically they seek to be the oppressors instead of whoever they are fighting.

The anit-erotica feminists are a classic example of this. They do not, deep down, wish women to have choice.. they merely want the choice to be their groups choice rather then men. In short, they are no better then those who they are fighting against.

By: Peregrine

Peregrine — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:53:08 +0000

Contemporary feminism has a sadly damaged reputation based on a misunderstanding of the movement.

Granted, my center of reference is a little skewed where my only academic exposure to the movement is in the field of literary criticism. But Anyone under the mistaken impression that feminism is anti-male, anti-porn, or anti-sex needs to spend a good couple of hours in a library brushing up on feminist theory.

By: oliver

oliver — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:54:17 +0000

It’s kind of depressing that people can argue against one kind of predjudice, yet still be so anti-.

In this case Mae having anti-male sentiment but (i’m assuming from context) isn’t racist/whatever, but any numerous other places we see people who can be anti-racism, and at the same time anti-gay.

I can’t think of any particular point here, other than the fact that people are unendingly strange…