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Pornography: The harm of discrimination : Comments

By Helen Pringle, published 10/10/2011

A very common use of pornography is as sexual discrimination.

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Vanna,

During my teens, I worked at a car-wash attached to a service station.The walls had the usual tame calenders on the walls, but it was the little tea room where the more raunchy pics were displayed (away from the public) Being the only girl in the establishment, I was always called upon to make the tea and coffee.
I asked one day jokingly, that since I was the one who spent the most time in the tea room, why it was that it was full of pictures of naked nubile women.
The next morning when I went to make the coffee, I found the walls plastered with pictures of naked men
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 10 October 2011 8:21:09 PM
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Poirot,
I have never been in a workplace where a woman was expected to make the coffee.

I think you are making that up.

But I have been in a number workplaces where a number of men did not want to work with women, to protect themselves from claims of sexual harassment.

I think that will be a growing trend.
Posted by vanna, Monday, 10 October 2011 8:59:14 PM
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Interesting post Hasbeen you write

'So ladies, if you want to stop pornography, get your gear off, & very soon, no one will bother to look.'

Many are all in favour of porn until asked whether they would be happy if it was their mother, sister or daughter that was involved. I doubt whether anyone would be handing a video around boasting about their daughters acting ability
Posted by runner, Monday, 10 October 2011 9:03:01 PM
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*Yabby, you've been around long enough to know that the garage calendars are hung in protest at the moratorium on more explicit images; it's a protest of emasculated masculinity.*

Nope Squeers, no normal male has ever told me that. In fact I even
stuck up one of those garage calenders in my workshop, because it
looked far better then the boring old pictures normally on calenders.
I was protesting about nothing at the time. It just so happens I
guess, that some supplier companies give them away for nothing,
and they will far more likely make it onto the wall then the many
calenders which are slung in the bin. Its good marketing.

*it's a) about men's perennial immaturity, with his pictures and cat calls and whistling and impressing his mates.*

Gawd Squeers, little boys grow up into big boys. Where is your tolerance and your
sense of humour? Now I know where the term "grumpy old men" comes
from. One only has to read some of the posts on this thread.
Posted by Yabby, Monday, 10 October 2011 9:27:22 PM
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Vanna,

I am not making that up. I usually made the coffee, but it was no big deal - and if I may say (without offending your misogynist principles) my coffee tasted a lot better than theirs.
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 10 October 2011 9:34:31 PM
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Poirot,
The word mysoginist has been said so often it has no meaning.

It is something feminists say when they can't think of a word.
Posted by vanna, Monday, 10 October 2011 9:42:04 PM
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