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• • 30 Oct 05
  • 11:55 am

  "Where Paul’s book ends up reading as a wholesale attack on all pornography, Levy resurrects tired old stereotypes of sex workers as victims." Tired old stereotypes of sex workers as victims? Lakshmi's self-contradictory ideas about empowered, happy whores comes from the same place men's age-old stereotypes of hookers as the happiest women in Earth comes from. In other words, the author herself has rejected the overwhelming gravity of reality www.prostitutionresearch.com for a bullshit commodified female sexuality that makes readers walk away knowing Lakshmi is one of the sexy, pro-ho feminists and not one of the baddie bad prude feminists like, oh …

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• • 19 Aug 05
  • 6:05 pm

  That drawing is pointless and offensive. Was a drawing of a buff brownskinned native Hawaiian man with a bulging loincloth rejected in favor of this stereotypical male-approved caricature of Hawaiian, nay, all women? You remind me of an Iranian woman who recently said, "The veil of America is porn." Equating the future of America with super big-tittied native girls wearing "do me" faces and holding cocktails tells this woman the role you envision for women in the future is the same reductively hypersexualized, racialized, and infantilized role women are forced to live now. Will we ever be your respected equals instead …

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• • 22 Aug 05
  • 7:13 pm

  My comments were about the drawing and meant for the editors, not Liberal, whose comments didn't offend me. Jessica, apology accepted. wolf, I do not want to see a drawing of a grinning loinclothed brown man and do not consider facile turnabouts of tastelessness equality beause for me equality is a real goal focused on human dignity. Equality, if it is to be more than an empty buzzword, doesn't mean treating men in the same disrespectful way our culture treats women and calling it even. That would be retribution, not equality.

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• • 29 Aug 05
  • 2:40 pm

  If progressives were more immune to regurgitating ideological nonsense than conservatives than liberal men like Mr. Tracey would not recycle Rush Limbaugh's rantings about "feminazis" because one woman expressed her opinion on a drawing. What to do when both conservative and liberal men rebuke opinion-giving women by calling them bitter, hateful, puerile smiters of men forming a gestapo to stop men from "allowing" women to compete for them by presenting their bodies as objects for men's sexual pleasure? How disappointingly regressive liberals are to women’s rights these days.

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