Porn & Pop Culture: A deadly Combination

[CrispyQ]

22. I have articles, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/02/gail-dines-pornography

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/08/07/does-porn-reduce-violence-against-women-evidence-says-otherwise/

I read yours. Will you read these? The second link actually addresses the Scientific American article you linked to.

Violence against women is more than just rape. It's living in a culture where you're afraid to go out alone at night, where you re-think the clothes you have on lest someone considers you provocative, where you don't contribute to male conversations because they would ridicule you simply because you're not one of them, where radio hosts get to call you a slut because you want access to affordable birth control.

It's living in a culture where your body is public domain - men on the street are allowed to say any disgusting thing they want to you. This is not a freedom of speech issue, this is about what is socially acceptable. It's perfectly acceptable for a group of men to shout out, "Nice rack!" to a woman they don't even know.

Living in a culture that dehumanizes & objectifies women is violence against women. The message is that we are not equal to men, that we are subservient to them. Yet we are a species that requires two to survive. A planet full of women with a few well stocked sperm banks would fare better at surviving than a planet full of men with well stocked fertilized eggs. How dare men suggest that we are not equal?

As for your comparison between how women fare in Saudi Arabia vs. Sweden, I'm sure if the Saudi's would just start watching porn they would treat their women better!