Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!phri!cmcl2!lanl!crs From: crs@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Censorship = Rape Message-ID: <32376@lanl.ARPA> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 12:22:12 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl.32376 Posted: Thu Oct 24 12:22:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 06:49:07 EDT References: <742@decwrl.UUCP> <5751@tekecs.UUCP> <1171@rayssd.UUCP> <810@x.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 39 > This is STella Calvert, a guest on the account and a non-employee of the > organization I _still_ can't get out of the header. > > 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." > > Heather, I don't mean this as a _personal_ attack. But your claim that "we > view" pornography in a certain way reminded me that I've been intending to > post from a different perspective. > > [...] > > to do so, whether I have to smuggle it in from a free country, buy it > locally, or sit down at the word processor and write it myself. > > In one sense, I cannot see any difference between rape and censorship. I have > a right to decide what enters my body _and_ a right to decide what enters my > mind. And I will fight any foolish attempt to coerce me in either case. > Fortunately, the censors are not yet using physical force. > > STella Calvert STella, I would normally have tried to mail this but under the circumstances I am nearly certain you wouldn't receive it. Thank you for your article. I thought your last paragraph was particularly well said. -- All opinions are mine alone... Charlie Sorsby ...!{cmcl2,ihnp4,...}!lanl!crs crs@lanl.arpa