Status Updates From Pornography and Civil Right...

my reaction to this books train of thought is transitioning from 'ok i guess if youre approaching this suite of power imbalances with a very weird and rigid set of analytic concepts and a very specific cultural position then---' to 'what is actually happening? should i... not be reading this linearly?'

"wrongful power" is another term casually dropped that made me say "woah" out loud when i read it

these are like skyscraper-words with how much there is to unpack in them

hand on my heart: i am reading this with as open a mind as i can muster. i welcome it to convince me.

and towards that end: i really wish this had, like, any citations. i'm curious about the point it's making about abortion being a 'right to privacy' and wish it would elaborate.

these early identifications with "moral authority" bode, uh, poorly, though.

- "Women’s human rights are violated through sexual exploitation and abuse"

- "Rape, battery, incest, prostitution, sexualized torture, and sexualized murder express contempt for human worth of women and keep women second-class"

- "Sex-based violation can both express an attitude and be a material means of keeping women down"