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From: judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms)
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Subject: Re: Possible Ban on Pornography  (CONTEST)
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 06:06:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 06:06:39 1985
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>I won't even go into the Lenny Bruce routines reguarding the choice
>of having a kid watch "horror films" vs. "seduction films".

C'mon, I want to hear the speculation about what he's going to do to her with
that pillow!

Seriously,

>Blood ...
>Heads ...
>Hero ...
>Villian ...
...
>Gay(M) ...
>Gay(R) ...
>Gay(X) ...

sounds like an excellent classification system.  You might add

Women(-)  -------  Women stereotyped, abused, etc.
Women(+)  -------  Women shown as strong, intelligent, etc.

The second category would protect sexists from inadvertently viewing upsetting
material.  The same "+" & "-" notation could be used for minorities, children,
and so forth.  In fact a simple device could provide the user with a menu, from
which various choices based on this system would be made for an hour, an
evening, or a lifetime, following which the program would pick your shows for
you.

There's money to be made here!

Judith Abrahms
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