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Re:The Internet Is for Porn by SolarNet on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:01PM (#25489058)
> This guy seems to be operating on the assumption that MEN are to blame for pornography's status as a social pariah

It's called the patriarchy for a reason. I don't know about you, but the priests I see ranting about pornography, the politicians I see talking about regulating it, the police who harass sex workers, people running groups like nofap, so on and so on, are men.

Yes of course women also contribute to it. But when I read the article, I didn't so much see it as blaming men, as explaining how the current social system is organized, and how that relates to gender. This is the point of the critical study of gender (AKA Women's Studies), not laying blame, but describing the system and how to confront it.

Not understanding that, treating it like someone is trying to blame an entire gender, rather than simply explaining how we got here, is why people make jokes about fragile masculinity and snowflakes on the right.

Re:The Internet Is for Porn by Chris2048 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @10:27PM (#25491880)
> It's called the patriarchy for a reason

That reason being, this is what many feminists think. And the rest of society don't call it the patriarchy for a reason too.

There are plenty female Catholics, even if there priests aren't (what about nuns?), Politicians/police follow societal cues. AFAIK, nofap has little to do with disdain for porn, and the people involved hardly represent society.

> as explaining how the current social system is organized

highlighting that the industry is run by men is otherwise irrelevant; unless you are blaming this fact as relevant.

> Not understanding that

There is nothing to "understand", this is just your opinion, not established fact. People do indeed make jokes about "fragile masculinity" etc - and those people are feminists, and there are plenty of jokes at their expense too (and afaik "snowflake" is usually applied to the left).

Re:The Internet Is for Porn by erklik on Sunday December 20, 2020 @11:05PM (#25492037)
>NoFap

How is people recognising that they have a problem and are unhealthily addicted to something somehow a bad thing?

High speed ultra hd pornogrpahy desensitises the mind into looking for constantly more "extreme" content leading to a race to the bottom with many losing desire for the "normal".

There's nothing wrong with that. Putting Porn on this pedestals where it's all good and there's nothing wrong with it is as bad as making it some sort of extreme horrible thing that we must shame and hide. Moderation is good.