Today we're sharing a most enlightening article that shows how systemic the silencing of women is when they object to pornography.
As seen through a feminist lens, this sanity-restoring article can help validate our collective grief over the devastation pornography has wrought, not only in our own lives, but globally:
"Why are you triggered by porn?" he asked.
As if my hatred for the industry and the filmed violence inflicted on the bodies of women and girls is nothing more than personal pathology! As if my anger, discomfort, and sorrow at the injustice of porn and its ideological role in constructing women as subordinate sexual objects that exist for male pleasure is actually only due to some personal history of trauma....
Click here to read: I'm not 'triggered,' I'm angry: Against the medicalization of women's rage
Please share with us your view in the comments below. How do you feel about a woman opposed to pornography being labeled as someone who is "triggered"? Does this classification interfere with gaining an objective view of pornography in society?
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