No, I Haven't Seen It Yet

[Byrnes Weir]

At 09:22 PM 1/23/97 -0600, Diana York Blaine wrote:
>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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                        SPEAK OUT


                                                all the best,


                                                        Byrnes