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Up until yesterday I watched misogynistic porn practically everyday, oftentimes more than once a day because it's the best way for me to get off, but after the election results I can't take it all of a sudden. Will I ever be able to start again?
I think Misogynist porn is an opinion of yours not a real genre. What makes you think porn is misogynist anyways? You know there is different kind of porn aimed at different kinds of audience. Not that I really watch it but they have guys and girls who do porn too you know. So what are you saying is misogynist? Porn in general or you are saying you are a misogynist and like watching porn which you believe hates women?
Well I'm only into bdsm in general so that type of stuff, but especially the master man slave women things from tumblr where girls would talk about how they used to have a life but their guy didn't want them to, so they just threw it out the window for him to treat them like shit. I cannot see that at all now.
Well the fact you were morally against it but still watched it said something about you. Also there are things in BDSM where the slave/sub will totally give up control to thier Master/Mistress. So this does not sound that bizarre. Its not abuse, its the fact the women or men enjoy that type of relationship.
That seems like a reasonable response, what with the steadily growing prominence of concern and discourse about gender equality. There are mountains of porn out there that portray healthy, non-demeaning canoodling.
Don't you ever assume my gender or I will sue you. I am super duper cereal.
how can two people acting, where the woman is probably paid more than the man, be misogynistic. The way sexual dominance works in a healthy relationship is the dominant partner will work to fulfill the submissive partners fantasies. Of course they enjoy it to, but often they are pulling the weight so that the submissive gets what they like. It has nothing to do with power relationships in the real world. So if this is what is being simulated in porn I don't see the misogyny.
Media reflects power structures not the other way around.
However if it is no longer getting you off, who am I to argue with that.
PS: So you wouldn't oppose (please note I'm not saying "ban", only oppose in the sense of arguing against) racist porn glorifying lynchings and the KKK? That would reflect a section of society but would also contribute to its legitimacy.
I will agree with you that there is some level of reinforcement, bottom to top. It is not as black and white as I stated in my original post. That being said, the much more significant perpetuator of the power structure, is it existing, not it being depicted.
I understand you can read in to these instances in such a way where the media plays such a large role, and I suppose neither of us can prove our points. But as a matter of common sense, gender imbalances and as you stated antisemitic sentiment existed before porn depicting male domination and the abundance of antisemitic literature.
The other point I would add is that if the power structures were reversed people would not be calling this porn misogynistic, as it would be tantamount to porn depicting female supremacy. So either way I don't see it playing any significant role in gender hierarchy.
Also I understand the point you are making and think some of it holds, but you are comparing nazi propaganda that is blatantly disrespectful to jews, to porn that is clearly fantasy and depicts sexual acts that many women enjoy as well as men.
To your second comment, no I would encourage it. There are thriving and healthy race-play communities all over, not to mention tons of people fetishizing nazi related subjects. This video puts it pretty well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4W8f-xmCEE also fetlife is a great place to find groups where people share and talk about these kinks.
This whole issue reminds me of when there was such a movement against violence in videogames, or how people still criticize rap music etc. and I am sure there is overlap amongst violent people, and people who consume these things.
But the idea that consuming a piece of media depicting violence can cause a person to act violently, or in this case specifically to sexually assault or rape is in all respect I think a crazy idea.
I see what you're saying because I do feel like that's just porn. It really helped me pinpoint what's really getting to me and it's the fact that Trump has specifically said things that used to get me off because I thought it was hot. But now I guess it feels more like a cruel reality.
Media reflects AND perpetuates power structures. To give an extreme example, take a look at how the Nazi's created and disseminated anti-semitic literature as a way of softening up the german public ahead of the holocaust: or course there was anti-semitism in existence already or it wouldn't have worked as well as it did, same with misogynistic porn.
It did not nessecarily "soften them up" for the Holocaust, but I'm sure there was a lot of racism against the Jews, as well as denial of service, whether out of actual hate, or simply to comply with the law. The German citizenry had no idea of the concentration camps, even the Allies were skeptical when people started sending in reports of the camps. More often than not, the people who said to have seen the camps were dismissed as nuts. Only late in the war did we find the truth, and even then, in 1945, the American army had to March German citizens to the camps so they could see the horrors for themselves.