quietlyradical:

People sometimes like to tell radfems “your objection to porn is the same as the religious right’s!”

Well, we’re both opposed to porn. A religious, conservative woman? She and I might be on the same page about why it’s harmful, in some respects, but they tend to get really shitty towards the people who have to do it to survive, so that alliance wouldn’t last long. Longer than it would with conservative men, though.

But conservative men? No. They use porn just like their liberal counterparts. They watch it, own it, make it. They just oppose it for the brownie points, as a convenient scare tactic. And besides that, look at the arguments they often use. “It drives men to sin” is a big one. This isn’t about the women who are being raped and abused and addicted in porn. It’s about how it supposedly makes it harder for THEM to hold to their ideals, for men to be good.

Because men’s morality means more than women’s lives to them, and always have. For liberal men, they are more honest about their boners being more important to them than women’s lives.

Conservatives think women should belong to one man. Liberals think they should belong to all men. Radicals believe that women belong to themselves are not to be traded, sold, rented, prostituted, raped, owned, stifled, or oppressed. And for that, they are called dangerous radicals and boring prudish killjoys in the same sentence.

So yes. I am the mean kind of feminist who wants you to stop watching porn.