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In reply to the discussion: I'm done, too. [View all]BainsBane
(53,035 posts)I did not claim those links were about me. That the reference to myself is in a separate paragraph demonstrates as much. Your response would suggest you had some unfamiliarity with structure of the English language, which I think we both know is not the case.
I could say a lot, but I will focus on one central point: Your continual references to the "science of objectification" or "science of porn" is tragically misinformed. Cultural analysis, gender studies, feminist studies, etc.. .do not pretend to be sciences. They are humanities. While the humanities and social sciences can and do overlap, scholars of gender studies are far more likely to be post-structuralists than empiricists or positivists. I can assure you from decades of personal experience, those academic departments are not populated with right-wingers. In fact, one would have to work very hard and go through department lists of many universities to find a single right-winger in any of those fields. I myself don't know of a single one. Perhaps if you actually read what "feminists" actually wrote instead of relying on guilt by association and strawman logical fallacies, you would know the basis of such critiques. Alas, you diligently avoid doing anything but trivializing "feminists" arguments. (note the use of quotes around "feminists" in keeping with your own usage, to denote the faux "feminists" as opposed to the real feminists whom you find acceptable. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025366495#post141 ). That is why discussion with you on such issues is a lost cause.
As an aside, I did start to do a search and had a laugh that you just recently discovered the existence of a current of separatist feminism from the 1970s. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1114&pid=4313 Naturally you didn't recognize it as such but rather invoked them as just another object of a ridicule. Amazing how some men think everything having to do with sex falls under their dominion, even when that sex is between women. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1114&pid=1967 http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1114&pid=1861
Pro tip: separatist feminists are lesbians. They don't have to like sex with men. Once again we see the mantra of women's sexual choice only runs in the way, toward choices that make them more sexually available to men.
But then, for some of us sexual choice runs neither way, which I myself discovered when having a discussion about PIV sex with a separatist feminist, and one of your compadres insisted my "sexcapades" didn't interest him. http://www.democraticunderground.com/125544521
As shocking as it is to imagine, even "prudes" like me have sex.