Very worried about writing a professional article, don't have the experience or the opinions or the wider knowledge

the above is an early draft - would like to hear any points for or against please?

editors welcome! arguments welcome

I would take this part out. It’s too personal, can be seen as biased.

The rest is pretty cool, enjoyed reading it.

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Thanks!

I think you just missed the really personal stuff i deleted as soon as i put it up!

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Lol yeah, read it after the edit :smile:

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If you’ve ‘had very limited exposure to porn’, as you say…then why are you writing an opinion/article about it?

I haven’t been raped either, but i have an opinion
I haven’t been locked up with a lethal injection being my only way out of the room

etc ad nauseum

As well as not having mentioned the methods and materials i have had exposure to

I just figure if you wanna learn about say, Africa…well…you go to Africa!

I’m undecided on that. I think career pornography certainly is. Anime porn is generally child focused - don’t have to search that to imagine it either.
Saying that we should make porn that’s women friendly is like saying we should make guns that are human flesh friendly: a nice idea that’s not realistic. Porn objectifies women. That’s the point of it: thrills without the messy humanity. If anything, the flood of amateur porn is going to make conditions worse for the people involved because there will only be money in the harder core stuff.

Do you think all pornography is abuse?

I just subscribe to the old saw…“write what you know”…

So if you’ve had very little exposure to pornography, then an opinion piece/article written by you won’t carry much weight or credibility to the reader.

my 2 cents

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I do get you I do

I could go into my whole abuse story - I could - but ja,

pointless

Lots of women like watching porn too…

It’s a complicated issue fer sure.

it is
I don’t see it as being a female driven industry

and primarily - i don’t know where we go from here

I wonder if ‘my limited exposure to pornography has been under abusive conditions.’ might carry more weight

thanks!

If you want to delve into the real subjugation of women, write an article on the Niqab…

But most feminists are silent on that one I’ve noticed.

It’s difficult and I really don’t have first hand knowledge

But Feminism is nothing if it is not global.

There is a lot of talk about it, the mixed feelings are all over the place. Of course most feminists are against it I think.

I’ve learned enough about Africa that I’m never going there. Continent-wide parade of dysfunction.

Pixel.

Previously I wrote you something about riskiness of totalistic/universalistic view, but I guess at the end that’s your article…
What is the problem, for me, is your inicial premise that ‘porn objectifies women’. OK. Then, let’s accuse the whole fashion Industry, and almost 99% percent of entertainment jobs,including commercials and filming, , BDSM - and yes there are feminist submissives, oh and male magazines (take a look to a Maxim for instance), not to mention Playboy and so on and so on…

If you are fighting the industry of sexual desire, then I hope you are aware that its lost from the start: because you are simply denying the fact that women are not only participants but consuments of that industry as well.
Secondly, you are in danger of taking the voices of and for all women which is criticised a long ago by postcolonial feminism. Saying that porn always objectifies women is like stating that religion does the same. OK, but what we gonna do with the Islamic feminism and women who chose their way of living whatever we ‘the emancipated westerns’ think about that?

But if you think to fight the legal or illegal side of porn…that’s a whole other thing I suppose.

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