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"Animals and autistic people don't see their ideas of things; they see the actual things themselves. We see the details that make up the works, while normal people blur all those details together into their general concept of the world."

"But regulators today are too abstract in their thinking...they're focused on their thoughts about the animals, not the real animals in the real plants, so more animals end up suffering."

"Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us."

"Displacement or projection shifts the ideological goalpost from the terrain of debate towards the ad hominem. We all know what this move to the ad hominem means. We do not have to listen to her because she is a 'dyke.' We do not have to take her seriously because she slept her way into prominence. She is only advocating that position because she is too unattractive to 'get laid.' "

"To discredit a woman can only too easily be done by an appeal to stereotypes of female sexuality."

"Vulnerability to sexual ridicule appeals to an unconscious shame that is symbolically encoded with established meanings of femininity".

"Vulnerability to sexual ridicule appeals to an unconscious shame that is symbolically encoded with established meanings of femininity".

"Vulnerability to sexual ridicule appeals to an unconscious shame that is symbolically encoded with established meanings of femininity".

"Women are presented in scenario of degradation, injury, torque, shown as filthy or inferior, bleeding, bruised, or hurt in a context that makes these conditions sexual. "

"Thus, Feshbach and Malamuth state that 'one exposure to violence in pornography an significantly influence erotic reactions to the portrayal of rape.' "

"The catharsis mode, when applied to pornography, assumes that the ore you see the less you do. In contrast, the imitation model states that the more you see the more you do."

"...and that open display of pornography promotes a climate in which acts of sexual hostility are not only tolerated but ideologically encouraged."

"Take, for example, the classic case of Donald Fearn, who abducted seventeen-year old Alice Porter... Fearn... tied her up on wires and an awl, mutilated her while she still lived in ways so horrible that they have never been publically reported, beat her to death with a hammer, and threw her broken body down a well. After his arrest..."Ever since I was a young boy I have wanted to torture a beautiful young girl."

"Every few seconds in America a woman or girl is slapped, slugged, punched, chopped, slashed, choked, kicked, raped, sodomized, mutilated, or murdered. she loses an eye, a kidney, a baby, a life. That's a face. And if the statistics are anywhere near right, at least one of every four women reading this paragraph will feel that fact through firsthand experience."

"Because such dehumanized ideas about women are so widely accepted, pornography is often not recognized as a system of propaganda designed to exploit and misrepresent the sexual differences between men and women."

Interesting.

"In his book Techniques of Persuasion, J.A.C. Brown lists eight techniques which are universally employed in propaganda campaigns. They are:

1. Use of Stereotypes
2. Name Substitution
3. Selection
4. Lying
5. Repetition
6. Assertion
7. Pinpointing the Enemy
8. Appeal to authority."

"The easiest way to accomplish these ends is to convince people that they are being threatened in some way by a scapegoat group. The propagandist must create or augment this mood of fearful dissatisfaction in order for his ideas to be readily absorbed."