Editorial: An honest assessment is needed of how pornography and social media fuel misogyny and rape culture | Morning Star | WomensLiberation

Editorial: An honest assessment is needed of how pornography and social media fuel misogyny and rape culture | Morning Star(morningstaronline.co.uk)

Posted March 29, 2021 by KateKnit in WomensLiberation

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March 29, 2021

There was a similar article in the guardian, the responses by academics were unsurprisingly drawn down gender lines, with the men coming out in defence of porn, while the women were laying out facts.

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BathMat

March 30, 2021

tempted to subscribe to MS despite having fairly different politics, just because they are the only UK paper to give decent coverage to gender issues and this

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VirginiaWolfberry

March 30, 2021

Yes, I’ve subscribed to Private Eye and the Economist for the same reasons (one too libertarian and one too centrist, but both fairly GC generally).

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Posted March 29, 2021 by KateKnit

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