Because porn uses misogynist tropes as narratives for the action going on in the porn. Hyper masclunity is rewarded, feminity is demeand...I mean its not complicated

I don't support Gail's politics on trans* folks. At all. She knows that full well, in case you are wondering. I was defending some of her views on porn, which I happen to agree with. Gail is also a marxist- if I defend marxism, am I also transphobic by default?

And where did I say that was the primary definer of…

I'm actually arguing that all work is demeaning to workers given capitalist structures. I'm arguing that treating porn as this magic thing that is somehow separate from the capitalist heteropatriarchy is silly and apolitical.

And yes, I am arguing that porn is demeaning to everyone. The workers, the consumers and the…

Sure, but I would argue against the industry being untouchable. There has been erotic imagery since forever, but porn is something relatively new. Its rise as a big business is something activists can push back against and should, for a variety of reasons. To say its untouchable is actually a really scary concept that…

The study done on the top 50 porns is actually really comprehensive. It uses industry standards on what the top 50 porns are and then they just analyze the content.

Actually, intersectional feminists have a whole lot to say about misogyny in gay male culture- seeing as its become fucking rampant. Do I think patriarchy is the root of all thats wrong in the world? Nah, though its probably the oldest source of oppression (modern day racism and capitialism being fairly new). But that…

Radical feminists actually have a specific definition for porn that has three critieria. It has to be explicitly sexual, it has to erotise degradation and subjugation, and I think the third one is there has to be a profit motive or something, but I'll need to double check.

Gah, I hate the argument that porn is not directly linked to violent acts. Neither are rape jokes, but we all know that they reinforced and uphold a misogynistic culture. Porn may not cause folks to go out and rape, but it definitely normalizes violent and misogynistic sexual behaviors.

Like why the fuck does all…

The industry is not marginal. It is a big business with a huge lobbying arm. A lobbying arm that uses its vast wealth to make sure workers in the industry get little to no protection. I will support demarginzation of workers anyday, but seriously? A huge multi-billion dollar industry that functions in line with big…

Gail actually uses a pretty specific definition. If you go through her lectures, you can probably find it- though its not on her site. Basically, its any explicit erotic material that eroticses the subjugation and degradation of a female or someone coded as such.

No, not really. It would be seen as a direct conflict. If you are making money off the thing you are supposed to analyzing, it would definitely decrease ones motivation to take a critical stance.

Its like how we generally don't allow pharmenceutical companies to verify the effectiveness of their drugs, we make them go…

The issue is more that this journal is completely on the "porn is a value neutral phenemon in our society and we have political stock in changing that to a positive thing". Tristan Taramino has often talked the sex positiveness of porn for example. Gail and the porn critical crew agree that there should be more…

Its mansplaining. And just because you are sooo kind to not demean the actors, does not mean their job is not demeaning. I'm not going to demean service workers at fast food resturants, but I am not going to deny the very structure of their job is demeaning.

The porn industry is designed to break the will of the…