Excellent point! Now THAT part makes sense, but that is rarely where people are coming from when they are all, "SEE LOOK HOW FEMINIST THIS IS, NO GIRLS WERE HURT IN THE MAKING OF THIS" and then have some poor uke get bashed around. That's kind of a contradiction.
But as per the IDEA, I pretty much consider porn as written by women for women as something that could be feminist--the fact that it tends towards "gay" male sex is just a manifestation. If someone were to say, "I'm feminist and sex-positive, and it tends to manifest as yaoi" more or less, then that's a good attitude. Unless I find out they're using it to write incredibly horrible stuff, and then it's a "you're doing it wrong" moment. Like I have a friend that's feminist and Catholic, but she totally does not to the religion equivalent of rapefic in her practice. If that makes any sense.
And you're right, it proves that sex is silly, especially when people try to write it out. XD
I guess I just tend to step back sometimes and look at how the idea and practice play out. Usually this coincides with three hours of sleep and seven hours spent doing Lagrangian derivations.
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Date: 2008-09-12 09:12 pm (UTC)But as per the IDEA, I pretty much consider porn as written by women for women as something that could be feminist--the fact that it tends towards "gay" male sex is just a manifestation. If someone were to say, "I'm feminist and sex-positive, and it tends to manifest as yaoi" more or less, then that's a good attitude. Unless I find out they're using it to write incredibly horrible stuff, and then it's a "you're doing it wrong" moment. Like I have a friend that's feminist and Catholic, but she totally does not to the religion equivalent of rapefic in her practice. If that makes any sense.
And you're right, it proves that sex is silly, especially when people try to write it out. XD
I guess I just tend to step back sometimes and look at how the idea and practice play out. Usually this coincides with three hours of sleep and seven hours spent doing Lagrangian derivations.
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