Word: porn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the district attorney advised Stork and Hagen that they would be arrested, the students still had no justification for showing the film. By courting a First Amendment confrontation, Stork and Hagen chose the easy way out. Rather than face the important issue--should the film society support the porn industry--they ducked into the constitutional shelter. A student organization is not simply a business it has obligations to the community it serves. In refusing to take seriously the decision to show pornography, film society officers relinquish their claims to our sympathy on grounds of unfair censorship...
Protesters rightly took the opportunity to educate the all-too-insensitive student body to the dangers of porn. Slide shows presented the link between sexism and violence; handouts traced the story of Linda Boreman Marciano's treatment during the filming of the movie that made her a "star"--treatment that can only be described as criminal and obscene. The demonstration the night of the screening was inspiring: as many people watched the slide show as the movie. We support that protest for its condemnation of an insensitive and wrong decision to support pornography, and we urge House film societies...
...pornography, this does not necessarily mean their attitudes will change. The definition of women as passive, masochistic, and dependent is so pervasive, so ingrained in us on so many levels, that simply eliminating one link in the reinforcing culture will not be effective. Instead, we must work to make porn's portrayal of women--objectified, brutalized, and degraded--as offensive to most people's tastes as would be the portrayal for entertainment of the lynching of Blacks or Hitler's "Final Solution...
Feminists fighting pornography generally do not advocate censorship for the above reasons. Yet that does not mean we have to sit back and let porn be shown in our communities and dormitories without protest. As friends and peers, we can demand of fellow students consideration of the issues involved, and if not total agreement, at least respect for our feelings. There is no excuse--save sexism masquerading as thoughtlessness--for the showing of porno films in dining halls or the acceptance of ads from magazines such as Bang...
...Because porn, finally, is a political issue. It hits at the heart of power and abuse of power. In our society, men have power in may forms over women--economic, social, and sexual. Pornography, soft-core as well as hard core, creates a climate in which the use of sex as a tool for power and domination of women by men is acceptable...