wonder how it would be a shock slideshow about violence put Women's Group.
end of the show.
Starting off with the postel advertising Rolling Stones Album 'Black and Blue', where a 'glamorous' woman is tied up havıng been supposedly beaten 'black and blue' by the Rolling Stones and, according the caption, mentary explains how women in Los Angeles forced the advertising company to withdraw this hoarding public view. The slide show illustrates how fine the line between repectable advertising and hard porn.
A slide is shown from a DOrI magazine woman's legs. are spread open in the air, no other part of her body is in view.
man stands above her with a huge drill. Another slide comes on the screen. ine Image Is similar bul this azie innesial ene this time, once again, The most vivid and horritic sides those that take women's bodies pleces mical to lls literal conclusion. In one succ a wonal is baccu ol a plate of rice, her bottom her body covered sauce. She looks just like a piece of chicken. In another we see mincer 'grinding Wollas •OOV The woman's head (of course)
have gone i her bottom grinder; only and legs are left waving in the air to titillate the male viewer. The final slide caps them all. It is a 'snuff' picture, a woman is being tortured to death, her nipples are being torn off by a male torturer.
many Socialist Challenge readers have ever seen a slide show about hard porn? If you're female it would shock you to see some of the images of women that are portrayed in hard porn magazines. For some men too. The Swindon Women's Liberation Festival recently showed a pornography and male by an American The effect on the all-female audience was a dramatic one. Stunned silence and a general feeling of discomfort greeted the Outrage and anger against the male sex as a whole natural response to a slide show designed 'sensationalise' the issue of male violence. Many women A woman's body to advertise men's clothes like myself - in the audience had never been exposed to such vile images of their own sex Dul my reacuon was nol simply one of anger at a world that encourages men to view woman in this way but also a gnawing anger at the bias in the slideshow itself The atmosphere that the crealed room was one of a feminist sennice where we t anc fed our anger at the male sex in general. A slide had been shown where a boss leaned over his was forcing his female employee to strip. It had nothing to say about the VOWCI man, as a boss over his female employees.
When it referred to 'snuff' films said nothing about the bloated, degenerate capitalists and their hangers on who provide the to finance these sadistic trips into foreign parts to trick women to their deaths said nothing of the profits the records, churn out the porn magazines. the larg wage packets promised to the women who can get far more for taking their clothes off than they ever will as lactory workers, hairdresser, schoolteacher or even top secretary.
It is far too simple to allow our are armies general to determine the that should take against por Of course it i vile. degrading. Of course we should oppose it and take individual men up for con doning it and consuming it they do their thousand. every day their lives. But when i comes to action against 1 we have to attack the Souls. not the manifesta We have to attack the class system that courages and luctate women's inferiority -the home and at work. W have to point the finger at the firms and multithat make millions out of the porn in. austri and ensure that a future Labour government takes control of these industries, using their profits for things people really need.
have to demand that all women are given the right to live indepenportunities the family planning and welfare facilities, that will ensure that no woman is forced to sell her body either in mar. riage or for any other reason. These are the ways we move from outrage to action.
Feminists have accused socialists of past. When DEAT blind in the past. discussing pornography the modern women's movement has to avoid beIng class-blind
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