Why We Object to McDworkins (was Re: Buying 'Intentions')

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Hi Charles:
<<However, aren't  there problems with the anti-pornography movement,
Dworkin and McKinnon, anti-smut brigades, etc. as discussed at length on
the M-fem lis? What is the thin line here between anti-sexism and sexual
repression?>>

I'm an anti-McDworkin feminist, as you know from the M-Fem threads and
elsewhere. (So are Kelley, Michael Hoover, et al.)

The distinction lies in this. Unlike McDworkins, we do not think that
representations of sex & sexuality are bad; on the contrary, we would like
to improve them so we may enjoy them more. However, we cannot improve them
unless we criticize sexism & exproitation in the existing modes of
production & consumption of sex & sexuality & their representations,
besides working toward a socialist society (which is a necessary but not
sufficient condition for the full flowering of sensuality and friendship, I
think). Part of the ruthless criticism of everything existing.

Yoshie