Censorship Schmensorship

The title of this post is in honor of the fact that I learned yesterday that Fran Drescher has an organization called Cancer Schmancer. For serious.
Anways, Amanda over at Pandagon blogged about this today too, but it was just too ridiculous to pass up. One of my all-time favorite books, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (if you haven’t read it, GO PURCHASE NOW) is being censored by a group of students at the University of Utah. Because Alison is so freaking great, her response to this news was “awesome!”

“This sort of bullshit will pretty much permanently fuck up any attempt of feminists to start a reasonable discussion about why so many men are attracted to a flavor of pornography that is as much, if not more, about humiliating and hating women as it is about getting men off. Which is not even all porn, but certainly doesn’t encapsulate novels like this. Hell, we’re stuck in definitional hell, with the right wingers defining porn as “any material that portrays sexuality in a way that I don’t approve ofâ€?, and most everyone else in liberal land defining it as, “sexually explicit materials designed to sexually arouse the reader/viewerâ€?, and radical feminists defining it as “photos and videos where the humiliation and pain of the woman is considered an essential part of the erotic experience for the viewerâ€?. Which is, to be fair to radical feminists, the majority of the material available through your internet channels or “Girls Gone Wildâ€? videos. I’m not getting into the discussion of censorship from feminists, since it’s a red herring, since the number of feminists willing to talk censorship is a minority of a minority.”

Yea, what Amanda said.