The SmackDog Chronicles (Ver. 2.6)

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  The continuing rantings of a Black middle-aged political Leftist and sex-radical progressive. (Charter member of the Sex-Pox Brigade since 2005)

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A Classic Smackdown of Antiporn "Feminist" Myopia: Jen Durbin Dissects Diana Russell by Anthony on August 8th, 2008
Major props for Iamcuriousblue for posting this to the BPPA; this is a perfect example of how antiporn fascists like Diana Russell cook the books to justify their biases.

Jon Justice Update: When the Victim Gets Rolled Again by Anthony on August 8th, 2008
You know you live in America when the victim of a virtual hate crime gets the punishment.

LOL/ROTF/LMPPBFAO @ Witchy-Woo by Anthony on August 3rd, 2008
Oh, hark!!  What is that incredible screeching sound I hear in the background??? Why.

Maggie Hays Knocks Down Her Pro-Porn Sand Castles: The Fisking (Part Deux) by Anthony on August 3rd, 2008
All right, let us continue with our detailed fisking of Maggie Hays' latest jousting of windmills.

As Promised: Maggie Hays Shadow Boxing Pro-Porn Sand Castles (The Full Fisking) by Anthony on August 2nd, 2008
OK....enough dilly dallying around; time to shake the trees and rake the leaves; mow the grass and kick some.....ahhhh, I mean, debunk some Maggie Hays lies. You may remember that I commented that Maggie's bombast about the "porno-iarchy" was only the SECOND whackiest post she had done on the subject. As long winded and long that essay was, it doesn't compare in sheer lunacy to an earlier essay that the Grand Sage of Antipornography Feminists had posted which supported to debunk what she perceived as "Bullshit Pro-Porn Arguments," which she proposed that antiporn feminists could dispatch "With Confidence". Problem is, though, that most of Maggie's inventive straw arguments that she claims to overthrow are simply inventions of her own cracked mind, pretty much used for the usual buttressing up of her standard boilerplate agitprop about porn's capital offenses against "women and children". I will use the same methods and syntax as Ren Ev did in her debunking of the "Porno-iarchy" blast; but the words spoken by me are mine alone. And no, I did not ask permission to paste this from Maggie's blog; unlike her, I know what Fair Use is. And a-waaaaaaaaay we go: Begin with a photo of a broken record; then Maggie starts up: See this? Yeah, that's a broken record. I chose this image for this post because I sincerely believe that all the pro-porners, pro-prostitutionists, pro-sexploitation folks, pro-hate speech & pro-"sex work" activists (or whatever you rad fems wanna call them) sound like a fucking broken record with all their "same old shit" reactionary arguments that do nothing whatsoever to help women as a class, arguments that, on the contrary, bolster the patriarchal anti-woman status quo. Thus, I have decided to write a a list of the porn apologists' bullshit arguments. Ahhh, Maggie, dear...bad analogy; most of us now use CD's and DVDs and iPods and mp3 players, now. Get with the program, please. I'll get to the delicious irony of Maggie Hays calling anyone out as "reactionary" and talking about "women as a class" soon enough. I know these are all parts of the same broken record we hear every day; I know that some people (especially some men) are so stupid and stubborn in defending such a widespread violation of women's bodies in order to maintain their own selfish sexual pleasure, I know all this. I also know that the pro-pornstitution folks are not only folks we meet online. The pro-porners we meet online are so easy to avoid or dismiss when we want to ignore them (thank fuck for that) while the pro-porners we meet offline are most often our co-workers, classmates, friends, even sometimes partners and so on. These offline people who defend porn aren't so easy to avoid and, more or less often, we find ourselves in a conversation on pornography with them at some point. It usually happens like this: They suddenly bring up pornography or prostitution for whatever reason, as part of a "joke" that we don't find funny at all (but rather sad -- as we do know that there's a terrible sexual slavery going on out there and people keep on denying it) or simply because they've been influenced by pornified pop culture. Then we feel like we cannot tolerate these pro-porn arguments any longer so we start informing them on what we know about the sexual slavery industry. But, unfortunately, we're feeling so upset that we just stop talking. There is just so much to say and we don't know where to start. And, on top of that, there they go! Talking the same old reactionary bullshit arguments we've heard ten thousand times again and again, sounding like the same old broken record. . . And we start losing our confidence. . . so we stop talking. Therefore I prepared this handy "Porn Apologists' Bullshit Arguments List and How to Respond to Them with Confidence" collection in order to help myself and other rad fems to challenge those apologies confidently IRL. I constructed it as a dialog: Just call it "The Official Maggie Hays Talking Points for Shouting Down Critics of Their Ideology" list, I guess. Perfect for witnessing those on the fence. The list then starts rolling: I shall debunk each one as they come. "Porn Apologist" is the role played by the hypothetical "pro-porn" strawman argument; "Rad Fem" refers to Maggie's response. (I'm also keeping all the links they use to their biases sources alive, just to prove the point.) Porn Apologist: Women freely choose to sell their bodies in pornography and in prostitution. How can you criticize the women's consent to be in porn? Rad Fem: Contrary to myths, radical feminists have never criticized women's involvement in the pornography industry as performers. Instead, we focus on the difficulties within which they make their choice to participate. Documentaries and articles on pornography in the mainstream media (which generally pick a very small number of performers out of the so much larger number of porn performers out there) typically show pornography performers as "happy women who have made a totally free choice". However, the reality of the circumstances within which the vast majority of those women entered the porn industry are very much different from this whole mainstream media glamorization crap. A lot of thorough research on prostitution (based on interviewing hundreds and hundreds of prostituting women) has shown that child sexual or physical abuse or neglect, poverty, economic hardship, past experience of battery or rape, trafficking, socialization to the sexist and racist pornified culture, etc. are key factors for women who enter the 'sex' industry. Feminists do not condemn the women who are in the industry, but we empathize with them. We understand that they are terribly exploited and harmed in this industry. As one woman who used to prostitute said that, while she was in prostitution, she would have yelled from the roof-tops how wonderful being a prostitute was, but that, while now she's still healing from her prostitution experience, she has "found that the worse thing of exiting prostitution is seeing the real reasons [she] became...

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