thatstrangerjack: unbound–paradigm:smelly-flower: Here’s a Noam Chomsky quote on porn.
thatstrangerjack: unbound–paradigm: smelly-flower: Here’s a Noam Chomsky quote on porn. This is it for me for today I’m done arguing. - The fetishization of abuse against women is seriously some of the most insidious, fucked up shit that men managed to cook up. The worst part about the normalization of this hatred of women is how women are expected to fully participate in it - not just the “performers” on the sets, but all women. We’re supposed to laugh along with men when they talk about all the horrible shit that goes on in porn, there’s a whole culture of “humour” around the worst of what porn has to offer. The worst of porn become memes, shared widely and laughed about. And women are not just told to laugh along, they’re told to accept and understand their husbands/boyfriends or brothers or friends fixation with the sexualized imagery of abuse against women, that women who react badly to porn (because obviously what goes on in porn IS TRAUMATIC FOR WOMEN) are told they’re prudes, that they’re frigid and unfun. That they need to be sexually “liberated”, if they weren’t so locked into prudery, they would understand and enjoy the sexualized abuse against them. I don’t know what kind of glorification of the work conditions sweat shop workers are expected to dole out to keep their jobs. But no one outside the sweat shops glorifies the sweat shops and tells the workers there they’re liberated. Everyone knows a worker in a sweat shop is not consenting to their treatment in any real way. But women are expected to love the way men hate us. We’re supposed to bask in the whole fucking mess as if it’s all in our favor. We’re supposed to pretend it “liberates” us. And we’re just supposed to accept and understand that almost all men in the whole fucking world participate in this fucked up porn culture. I don’t fucking accept it. We all know what goes on in porn - we’d have to be stupid not to know. It’s time we woke up to the fact that men participate in this hate willingly, even enthusiastically, all the while knowing exactly what goes on in porn. It’s time we understand just how much men hate us. yikes -- source link