pornography

My "farewell to Bloggerparty" post.

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“Woooo hoooo!!!”

“Not right in my ear, dude! I can hear you already! Or, I could, once.”

“Sorry, dude. I kinda lost it for a second. But look at this, you’ll see why.”

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One of my language sites named JumpG is like an island forlorn that members visited only once in a while. As a senior member and one of those who refused to leave, seeing hope in the future development of the site, I took part in encouraging the members to stay on. Nevertheless, there are times you would also like to leave.

You ask a question and it is answered after two months – if ever. You make a comment and it gets no rejoinder. A German named Ami, in fact, had invited me to his more populated language place, mentioning the grave-like silence of JumpG. Although I had registered with his group, I still remained faithful to JumpG. My friend also stayed on and became my teacher for German – although our teaching-learning was quite slow, if there was something of that to speak of - given our work pressures.

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Pornography as a Moral Issue

Catherine Mackinnon is a feminist who argues that all pornography is a violation of women’s rights. Mackinnon says freedom of speech does not apply to women because they are silenced by pornography. I disagree with her. Mackinnon says “pornography does not cause harm, it is harm.�? And she feels this “harm�? outweighs its expressive value.

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Rape, molestation, groping...a truly accidental brush against a breast, making a phone call...saying "tits" in public... where do you draw the line for a sex crime?

Although all of the prior mention things are possibly innapropriate and maybe even offensive, does that make them all criminal actions? Should someone be penalized for words alone?

A hot debate lately is "SHOULD SEX OFFENDERS BE ALLOWED TO BE EMPLOYED AT SCHOOLS?"

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Awhile ago, I would have agreed with Henry Ford when he said “History is bunk". If I could have troubled myself to find out who Henry Ford was or why he said that. Yesterday, said I, doesn’t tell me what I need to know today. History is a hobby for old farts.

So I’m an old fart now. I find history fascinating. I find it fascinating that the authors of “freedom of speech" (1st Amendment of our Constitution) were all survivors of our Revolution, were all under sentence of hanging for speaking out against their Government (i.e., England), had the Revolutionary War been lost. Their freedom of speech was political, and a matter of life and death. Martin Luther King fought for it. It is this freedom to which the 1st Amendment speaks.

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