No, I Haven't Seen It Yet

[Diana York Blaine]

You must admit it's alarming to find Larry Flynt portrayed as media
darling on Larry King, etc.--he was even in the Dallas social column the
other morning as they gushed about his presence at a local watering hole,
gold-plated wheelchair and all.  This is a man who portrayed a woman being
fed into a meat grinder on the cover of his magazine. Would we all merely 
write him off as "slimy" if it had been a man?  Or, as Steinem asked in
her editorial, if he had portrayed a black man trussed up like a deer on
the hood of a car instead of using, yes, a woman?  The point's not whether
to censor, it's to stop pretending this relates only to free speech by
discussing "pornography" in such an abstract way and instead express
outrage at the fact that women remain an underclass, constantly portrayed
as meat that can be bought and sold and destroyed. If you don't think the
reality of sexism degrades every single one of us, man or woman,think
again. What's next, David Duke on Regis and Kathy Lee?  I doubt it.  Diana