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Considering all the criticism that Willis piled upon the antiporn movement (and its icons MacKinnon and Dworkin), I’m a bit surprised that Blartow would attempt to reconstruct her (Willis’s) politics to fit her (Blartow’s) ideology. But then again, consistency isn’t one of her more visible traits.
My own personal view of Ellen Willis is tainted a bit by the fact that she ultimately became more of a social democrat and even came dangerously close to becoming a Eusted Manifesto liberal hawk on the subject of Iran and Afghanistan. I remember a well-circulated essay that she did where she basically butchered Leftists who opposed the war actions actions of the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even went so far as to give faint praise to the Bush Administration for pressing the fight against the Taliban for their crimes against women there.
Other than that, she was a pioneer, and the first to use the phrase “pro-sex feminism” to define the philosophy that dared to challenge the antiporn feminist consensus. She will be missed here by all decent progressives.
Anthony
BTW…not to break the thread, Miz B, but excellente job on the rehab of the site….old school burgundy, old gold, and cobalt blue really does rule.
“In short, pornography is a symptom, not a root cause.”
Make that “forms of pornography” and i think i’m with her on this. Maybe she’s just not interested in the reclamation of that particular word, but i’d just want to be clear that i’m not sold on the thesis that the only reason we look at pictures of naked things is the patriarchzors.
Yeah but is getting your ass chapped necessarily a BAD thing? Sorry to kid, but I swear, whenever I read stuff like this, however scholarly, visions of the best kind of ruff sex end-up dancing through my head. Forget about that whole freaking discussion on double penetration–I’ll see that bet and raise it to triple! Maybe Mistress Blartow can exercise me of my matriarch-crushing thoughts like those crazy evangelicals who turn gay men straight. Now that would be hot!
This is the complete text of the review.
Been sick for a week with the worst cold ever, but the obit for Ellen Willis in The Nation opened up a whole new world. Tracked down her essay “What’s the Matter With Tom Frank.” Loved it. Now I can’t get enough of her words. Four books have been ordered. As a result, I’ve completely rewritten my essay on Feminism and Pornography at http://www.priceofliberty.com/freesex.htm . It’s a big improvement over the crap I wrote in 2003 after having been dumped by an Antiporn Fem. By the way, the link posted by KH above doesn’t work, and I would like to see the complete text. Charles.