Men's Group

Here's a good example of that sort of reasoning: "You criticize Andrea Dworkin. Andrea Dworkin was a Feminist. MRA's criticize Feminists. Therefore, you are an anti-Feminist MRA".

If I had a piece of cake for every time I've heard something like that, here, I'd have a lot of cake.

Now, I do believe that when right-wing sources are directly linked or quoted on DU- be they Judith Reisman or The Meese Commission- it's more than legitimate to call them out as such. Right wingers and their organizations do not get a magic free progressive pass just because they're trying to stamp out smut.

Personally, I've said this before- I'm strongly pro-First Amendment. I'm not going to apologize for that. And I'm pro personal freedom. I'm not going to apologize for that. I believe that consenting adults should be free to engage in consenting adult behavior, as long as everyone is a consenting adult.

But porn isn't going anywhere. That ship has sailed. The folks who have hung their hat on "getting rid of it" ... it doesn't really matter what side of the ideological spectrum they're on, they've lost that particular battle.