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[fierceawakening]

Recently, I posted about a screening of the anti-pornography documentary "The Price of Pleasure."

Basically, some producers of pornography and people in pornography wanted to attend the screening and challenge what they felt to be misinformation presented in the documentary.

(In some cases, these folks felt that interview footage from people in the

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[amblinwiseass]

Which hardly seems to me a good way to convince misguided "pro-pornies"

...not that that's their purpose. You said it yourself: "sloppy and propagandistic". From all accounts, this has not ever been something that was intended to stand on its own merits or to bear close critical examination.

[fierceawakening]

True, of course. But with all the early "a balanced look" rhetoric you would think maybe they'd be less bald-faced about it.
Maaaybe...

yeahokaythey'reasshatsigotnothin'

[amblinwiseass]

Bald-faced to us, but probably not to the screening audience. And so long as they can keep the two apart, their little schtick will probably go off fine.

Honestly, though, I have to say I prefer the genitals-with-STDs slideshow that passed as sex education in my old high school in Mississippi. At least that didn't try to pretend to be other than the crass manipulation it was.

[amblinwiseass]

(I mean, my impression is that they're showing their flick to a bunch of people who are, by and large, not particularly aware of the fact that there is a feminist blogosphere, much less participating enough in it to be aware of all this.)

[amblinwiseass]

(Hi! I'm Aaron, and today is apparently my day to state the blindingly obvious. In other news, the sun came up this morning, and water, contrary to all expectations, remains wet. Now here's Tom with the weather. Tom?)

[roykay]

UN Screening?

Interesting. Is the general public excluded from that too?