Some excellent news to start the new month off. Gloria Steinem, one of the worst femihags in history, has finally croaked it.
Here are some of her quotes on porn:
“Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.”
Gloria Steinem
“For most people the greatest barrier to opposing pornography is the ignorance of what is in it.”Gloria Steinem, Preface of “Outrageous Acts and Everday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“White women are subject to sadism and Black women are subject to sadism and compared to animals in these hideously explicit visuals.”Gloria Steinem, “Gloria Steinem Speaks Out on Violent Porn,” an editorial report from Wise Women’s Web, 1997
“How long before women and men of all races can oppose pornography, and be taken as seriously as Jews who oppose Nazi imagery, blacks who oppose racist imagery, or anyone who opposes depictions of hate and degradation that are not sexualized?”Gloria Steinem, Preface of “Outrageous Acts and Everday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and masterful male.”Gloria Steinem, “Erotica vs. Pornography,” a chapter from “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“Making women seem anti-sex and joyless if we want the right to be sexual without being humiliated or hurt, and making men seem wimpy and undersexed if they prefer cooperation to domination, is clearly the tactic of choice for isolating anybody who tries to separate sexuality from violence and domination — which is a challenge to male dominance at its heart.”Gloria Steinem, Preface of “Outrageous Acts and Everday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“Looking at… instances of anti-woman warfare led us directly to the propaganda that teaches and legitimizes them — pornography. For the same reasons that we had begun to differentiate rape from sex, we realized that we must find some way of separating pornographic depictions of sex as an anti-woman weapon from those images of freely chosen, mutual sexuality.”Gloria Steinem, “Erotica vs. Pornography,” a chapter from “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“These are typical images: women with breasts so dangerously enlarged by implants that they can no longer lie down or walk normally; female bodies turned into meat market parts by gags, bonds, and masks; young girls with tear tracks in their make-up as they experience “pleasure” in their humiliation; women chained with their legs apart while bottles and rods are forced up their vaginas; girls who smile, apparently on drugs, as their nipples and labia are pierced by needles; children being penetrated orally and anally in “how-to” manuals of child abuse; women screaming in pain as they are strung up on harnesses and penetrated by animals or dildos; adult males with little boys playing the “female” role as their bodies are painfully invaded; even very realistic scenes of evisceration and murder.”Gloria Steinem, Preface of “Outrageous Acts and Everday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“Pornography is about dominance and often pain. Erotica is about mutuality and always pleasure. Any man able to empathize with women can easily tell the difference by looking at a photograph or film and putting himself in the woman’s skin.”Gloria Steinem, “Erotica vs. Pornography,” a chapter from “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“There are times when a woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”Gloria Steinem to Hugh Hefner, while interviewing him in 1970 for the McCall’s Magazine article “What Playboy Doesn’t Know about Women Could Fill a Book”
“When we protest against pornography and educate others about it… we are strengthening the First Amendment by exercising it. …None of (the measures suggested by feminists) keeps material from being published: “prior restraint,” in the terms of censorship law. Most just require that those responsible for pornography no longer be immune from prosecution for crimes committed during its production and distribution.”Gloria Steinem, “Erotica vs. Pornography,” a chapter from “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
“(Pornography) has nothing to do with sex, with love, with erotica. It is violence. And in most of the cases of rapists and child abusers who have been questioned, they have said very clearly that they were practicing what they had seen demonstrated in pornography.”Gloria Steinem, Television interview during march on Times Square by Women Against Pornography, 1979
“Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain.”
Another Steinem quote:
“Of course, the notion that enjoying pornography makes it okay is a popular male idea. From Kinsey forward, research has confirmed that the purchasers of pornography are almost all males, and that the majority of men are turned on by it, while the majority of women find it angering, humiliating, and not a turn on at all.”
Gloria Steinem, “Erotica vs. Pornography,” a chapter from “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” (2nd ed., 1995)
Bernie Sanders proposes a bill to outlaw the building of AI that exceeds human intelligence, with a 20 year prison sentence for anybody who attempts to do so.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6069131-sanders-casar-ai-superintelligence-ban/