No, I Haven't Seen It Yet

[Ted Samsel]

Watch TALK SOUP. Your wildest fears might just be realized.
> 
> 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
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Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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