tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309436860556869439.post5393413434474633186..comments2023-10-25T12:35:36.832+01:00Comments on Left Liberal: Girlpower; The pseudo-feminism that ends at 30...Left Libhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06363370783879139149noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309436860556869439.post-51883927706446064412007-12-28T01:04:00.000+00:002007-12-28T01:04:00.000+00:00What a strange argument. Just look on the net. Mos...What a strange argument. Just look on the net. Most porn is exploitation. It shows mechanical sex. It often comes from the third world, where culturally women would not dream in bahaving in such a fashion, but do so as the only way to survive. It is pure market forces that determines that so much porn is produced in the third world. Most of the porn produced in the UK or US is rubbish as well.Left Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06363370783879139149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309436860556869439.post-82665536988403199332007-12-22T13:30:00.000+00:002007-12-22T13:30:00.000+00:00It depends what you mean by feminism.The socialist...It depends what you mean by feminism.<BR/><BR/>The socialist version treats women as a group and seeks to impose ideals upon them, which is just as bad as the state of affairs they wish to overcome. It replaces one enslavement with another.<BR/><BR/>The liberal version is that women are individuals in their own right - they should be allowed to develop their talents and pursue the opportunities they wish.<BR/><BR/>Now, given that men and women are different, we will often use different attributes to pursue the ends which we choose.<BR/><BR/>The question which then needs to be answered is whether women who actually want to be in the position they want to be, who have the necessary abilities, are being rejected based on their gender and their gender alone - unfortunately I believe this happens, which is wrong.<BR/>The other problem to look at comes in politics - we want to have approximately equal representation of women in politics - on the grounds of democracy and fair representation. In that case, the problem appears to be that women don't wish to enter politics as much - so we look at why and change the institutions and processes to try and bring more in.<BR/><BR/>Seeking to lay the blame at the foot of 'capitalism' is rubbish. It is in capitalist countries where pornography is made to high standards, where exploitation is greatly reduced. It is in those countries which still have feudalistic, totalitarian, corporatist* or socialist governments where the exploitation occurs.<BR/><BR/>* okay, so the west is still largely corporatist, but its freer than the less developed corporatist countries.Tristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395992764678278326noreply@blogger.com