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In reply to the discussion: Why Gail Dines Is About As Leftist As The Tea Party [View all]LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)47. I found you your information, Warren!
        ...and guess what! 
Brace yourself, 
I'm sure this will come as a shock...
You were right on both counts. She both misrepresented the information contained in the document she was using in the video, and referred to stuff in it that wasn't there:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240151464#post50
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        One, if I had a walnut for every subjective OPINION that Dines tries to pass off as universal
        Warren DeMontague
        Aug 2012
        #6
      
        
        When challenged on her sources, Gail Dines has been repeately shown to either misrepresent
        Warren DeMontague
        Aug 2012
        #13
      
        
        AVN isn't readily searchable via google, as I discovered after briefly attempting to provide a link.
        proverbialwisdom
        Aug 2012
        #14
      
        
        Extreme porn is illegal in the UK.  Dines describes and questions the parameters of legal in the US.
        proverbialwisdom
        Aug 2012
        #16
      
        
        You're avoiding answering my questions. And this thread is ABOUT Dines.
        Warren DeMontague
        Aug 2012
        #17
      
        
        Nice try.  My guess is that anyone actually informed doesn't equate porn and extreme porn.
        proverbialwisdom
        Aug 2012
        #18
      
        
        Your guess? Your guess would be wrong, because that sort of conflation is exactly the basis
        Warren DeMontague
        Aug 2012
        #21
      
        
        RE: You're avoiding answering my questions. And this thread is ABOUT Dines.
        proverbialwisdom
        Aug 2012
        #19
      
        
        If Dines is discredited, AND her methodology is Discredited, and her source material is discredited
        Warren DeMontague
        Aug 2012
        #20
      
        
        RE: AVN article.  Her presentation below contains a slide with the source material plus discussion.
        proverbialwisdom
        Oct 2012
        #31
      
        
        Gail Dines is a transphobic bigot. Bigots are not welcome in this group and transphobia is not
        Warren DeMontague
        Oct 2012
        #32
      
        
        Gail Dines was just a keynote speaker at an event headed by transphobic bigots
        Warren DeMontague
        Aug 2012
        #7
      
        
        More on the allegations of transphobic bigotry at the conference Dines endorsed w/ a keynote speech:
        Warren DeMontague
        Aug 2012
        #11
      
        
        This is not an open forum for right wingers and their enablers to broadcast propaganda.
        Warren DeMontague
        Oct 2012
        #24
      
        
        I am not going to allow this group to be a forum for bigots of any stripe.
        Warren DeMontague
        Oct 2012
        #27
      
        
        No, I'm talking about posting an hour long video of Gail Dines opining on whatever.
        Warren DeMontague
        Oct 2012
        #29
      
        
        Professor Gail Dines and Professor Sheila Jeffreys are being misrepresented on this thread.
        proverbialwisdom
        Oct 2012
        #33
      
        
        You have been informed that the mens group is not a place for the promotion of transgender bigotry.
        Warren DeMontague
        Oct 2012
        #34
      
        
        Another DU Feminists Group (Catherina) Thread on Jeffreys' trans bigotry:
        Warren DeMontague
        Oct 2012
        #36
      
        
        "The act which men commonly perform on prostituted women is penis-in-vagina sexual intercourse.
        LadyHawkAZ
        Oct 2012
        #38
      
        
        Apparently, from what I've heard, this is a awful horrible pit of pure horrible awfulness.
        Warren DeMontague
        Oct 2012
        #40
      
        
        I'm not a fan of Gail Dines, but I'm sure there have been more convincing/logical critiques of her
        fishwax
        Oct 2012
        #44
      
        
        "She's wrapping her authoritarian-based complaint in a veneer of progressivism."
        4th law of robotics
        Oct 2012
        #52
      
        
        Are you suggesting that, say, "Morality in Media".... has some sort of right-wing, religious agenda?
        Warren DeMontague
        May 2014
        #66
      
  