Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unc.unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Re: A flash from the (recent) past. Message-ID: <408@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 01:08:40 EST Article-I.D.: unc.408 Posted: Sun Oct 27 01:08:40 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:30:34 EST References: <742@decwrl.UUCP> <5751@tekecs.UUCP> <1171@rayssd.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 19 Summary: In article <1171@rayssd.UUCP> hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel) writes: > Most of the women who post or respond via personal mail >to various posters have made it QUITE CLEAR that we view pornography >as something that demeans us as a whole and offends us as individuals, >NOT as "being interested in pretty women." But, are these feelings justified? I am not thinking of magazines that cater to violent, sadistic fantasies, but those that merely present women as sexual objects. What is so terrible about them? I view my tennis teacher as a tennis object (i.e. a tool to use in learning tennis, without concern for him as an individual), but I don't think he feels demeaned and offended by my attitude. Are male homosexuals similarly offended and demeaned by the pictures in the homosexual pornographic magazines that show men as sex objects? Why not? Frank Silbermann