born_stubborn

This is a collection of quotes that I got from a MySpace friend's blog. Herein there are quotes from the enemy as well - those who would have the status quo remain as it is, human rights be damned.

(emphases mine)

(her title)’its their choice, they must like it."

(her words)"knowing that there are people out there like this, and knowing i know men who watch porn and think its cool but they have no respect for the women kills me. theyll say that the girls have the choice and therefore they must enjoy it. theyll say they dont respect those girls. that they dont want their daughters or girlfriends or sisters doing it, but they sure enjoy watching it...... this kills me. i cry. truly. i fcking cry every time i read shit like this. it fucking hurts. oh, and to hear loved ones say it hurts even worse.
porn is a fucking hate crime and watchers are committing hate crimes, even if they dont 'pay' for it."(/her words)

I'm not cutting this. Get over it

On liberation:
"Once porn and real human sexuality were distinguishable. Not even porn's biggest advocates would suggest a porn flick depicted reality, that women were gagging for sex 24/7 and would drop their clothes and submit to rough, anonymous sex at the slightest invitation. But as porn has seeped into mainstream culture, the line has blurred. To speak to men's magazine editors, it is clear they believe that somehow in recent years, porn has come true. The sexually liberated modern woman turns out to resemble - what do you know! - the pneumatic, take-me-now-big-boy fuck-puppet of male fantasy after all."
-Janice Turner, in The Guardian UK

On lifetime goals (from the enemy)
It pains us every time we see another woman we can't have sex with. You want to see all these women naked and you know you never will. It's really frustrating. Girls Gone Wild gives you all the breasts of all the girls you never get to see. You would never get to see every shape of breast in your lifetime in real life, but now you can.
-Austin, porn user interviewed in Pornified by Pamela Paul

"It's raining fucking information, pop culture, and pussy...it's pouring out."
-Some guy at Vice Magazine, quoted on SexTV: Canada

On marketing (from more allies)
If we were to acknowledge that sexuality is personal and unique, it would become unwieldy. Making sexiness into something simple, quantifiable makes it easier to explain and to market. If you remove the human factor from sex and make it about stuff – big fake boobs, bleached blonde hair, long nails, poles, thongs – then you can sell it. Suddenly, sex requires shopping; you need plastic surgery, peroxide, a manicure, a mall.
-Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs

"What I saw were women just like myself who were desperate, addicted to drugs, homeless, and I'm sure probably at least 80 percent of them suffered from sexual abuse as children. I saw them re-living their childhood experiences by getting into that industry. They were looking for attention, pleasing men, and being abused. And that's all they know. They think it's great. They think it's wonderful. I could've looked you in the eye ten years ago and told you that I loved being in pornography, was proud of what I was doing and that I was having a great time. But now I can tell you that it's so far from the truth. I was very convincing. I could convince you. I mean, I could walk up to a porn star today and she could tell me the same story and I can remember being in that place."
-Carol Smith, former porn performer, in Not For Sale .

(quotes from the enemy)
"I like guys to just take over and just fuck me and have a good time with me. I'm just here for pleasure....I'm a fucking whore."
--Dialogue by Jessica Darlin in Two in the Seat 3, as quoted by Robert Jensen in Getting Off.

"There are those who say illogic is the native tongue of anything with tits...(women) speak not from the heart but from the gash, and chances are that at least once a month your chick will stop you dead in your tracks with a masterpiece of cunt rhetoric...the one surefire way to stop those feminine lips from driving you crazy is to put something between them--like your cock, for instance."
- From Hustler

"Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it."
---Larry Flynt, pornographer.

"I've learned that if you can get the chick into it, she'll do just about any damn thing. Because she's got to relax and shit...Because they're made to get fucked like that. I mean, why else would her ass be that fat, her pussy look like that, her thighs look like that? She looked like that because she was made to get fucked...Who can say they ain't made for that."
--comment from the special features section of Big Booty White Girls, quoted in Getting Off by Robert Jensen.

"In pornography, women are three holes and two hands. Women in pornography have no hopes and no dreams and no value apart from the friction those holes and hands can produce on a man's penis."
-Robert Jensen

"Women were born with three holes for one purpose: To cram a cock deep inside every cuddly cavity! Like true cock sockets, our whores subject their beautiful bodies to the nastiest 4-way debauchery ever lensed.
- From description of Zero Tolerance: No Holes Barred DVD

It's just fuckin' pathetic and sad that this is how a majority of men feel about women. I hear shit like this from coworkers all the time. It makes me want to slap the shit out of them. Unfortunately, I'd lose my job and probably spend some time in jail as a result. Fortunately, I'm in a position where I can keep my distance. Even worse is that this type of man is so commonplace that he often gets mistaken for someone decent - even someone with integrity. Yeah. Right. How the fuck can someone call themselves decent when they dehumanize half the human race?

Get real.

"...you get these women who are struggling to have the female sex taken seriously for what they are as people, and then you've got these other women who are spreading their legs to make money. So you've got one person who's like, 'Listen to me, I'm a person, and I'm trying to get a life and do something,' and another woman who's like, 'Hello, anyone like a piece of ass?' -Dolores O'Riordan of the Cranberries

I see women as people. If you think that makes me less of a man I welcome you to show me how much more manly you are.