Why Gail Dines Is About As Leftist As The Tea Party

[Warren DeMontague]

6. One, if I had a walnut for every subjective OPINION that Dines tries to pass off as universal

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Objective fact, I'd have a fuckload of walnuts.

Two, i guess she didn't get the memo from the DEA that the "oh noooez, you dont understand, its way worse now than it was when you did it growing up!!" bullshit didn't work with pot, and its certainly not going to work with pictures of consenting adults fucking; which, contrary to the breathless hyperbole of folks like Dines, is what "most porn" actually consists of, now as well as in the past.

Three, no, porn is not "markedly different" than it was 15 years ago, other than the fact that you can now get it on blu-ray or over the internet as opposed to on VHS at a video store.

Which brings me to Four, namely, the same clucking moralists and puritanical would-be censors were trying to ban porn 15 years ago, too. When, as they claim now, it "wasnt bad". Why? Because to the Gail Dines, Judith Reismans and Rick Santorums of the world, it is ALWAYS bad because it's ALWAYS SEX, and SEX IS BAD.

Ask Dines what sort of graphic depiction of a sex act she wouldnt have a problem with... She will hem and haw and equivocate,but the real answer is, there isnt one. Its not about the sorts of porn or the messages in the porn or the content of the porn, its about the fact that its porn.

Period. She should stop the disingenous games and just admit it. Her pals in the religious right know what she's really about, shame she can still (for now) sucker someone at a place like alternet into giving her airtime.