PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Social Inequality
6 Dec 2015
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Pornography as speech: mackinnon objects porn on political grounds. Women"s freedom and equality are threatened: her project: porn is discrimination and defamation. Porn as an act and not an idea: freedom of porn freedom of speech. Deprives women of speech (especially against sexual abuse) Difficult to articulate political dignity for themselves. You can be offended but not hurt cannot interfere: liberal view, mackinnon. More powerful people in the porn industry abuse less powerful people (women) and hide behind state power speech as action: social inequality enforced through words/pictures/videos/etc, the law already recognizes some speech as action that is problematic. Porn is an unconscious mental intrusion and physical (acts of discrimination: mackinnon manipulation. Porn is used as sex there is a link between consumption of porn and treating women as objects of abuse the physical reality of porn (substitutes for reality) Production/consumption of porn as acts of discrimination.
