@Signme Uplease, Your rant reads as if you are channeling Carry Nation and her sociopathic desire to forcibly impose her will--and her axe--on men and their choice to drink alcohol. Her desire, motivated by sexual frustration and misandry, was to control and rule men, not so much to protect women whom their drunken husbands abuse. McKinnon and her ilk, including you apparently, motivated by their misandry, falsely claim(ed) that any peaceful, mutually consenting interaction between men and women is an act of violence against women, or that porn as such necessarily degrades and sanctions violence against women in the real world. Yes, there are male predators who target women. There are female predators, too, and sometimes they were wrongly acquitted or found not guilty because of their being "of the weaker sex" (e.g. Lizzie Borden). Yes, there are men who read all genres of porn and stupidly, lazily generalize that "all women" are like the women portrayed in those stories, and "think" that those stories "justify" them coercing their dates and spouses to emulate those fictional characters. But those who choose to initiate violence towards others because of violence-laden stories they read do not thereby negate, do not refute the rights to intellectual freedom and freedom of the press and speech that all people possess. There are many women who have rape fantasies and enjoy reading pornography involving rape. That doesn't mean that they would actually enjoy rape, and that it should therefore be legalized, and it doesn't mean that women should not be believed when they can prove that they have, in fact, been physically assaulted, sexually or otherwise. To advocate for censorship or arrest and incarceration on the presumption of being guilty of a crime absent any physical proof of harm is dangerous to everyone's liberty.
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