Why Gail Dines Is About As Leftist As The Tea Party

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50. I agree that some of the argument presented suffers from logical fallacies

However, I think there's inherent political danger of labeling any anti-pornographer as progressive. For one thing, it just doesn't fit into progressive or liberal ideology. I've yet to see a convincing argument against legal pornography that improves the social standing of anyone. Arguments that legal pornography increases violence against women have never had any sound basis. Arguments about 'self-objectification' are even more nutty. So it really just boils down to the attempts to control consensual sexual behavior, which has a tendency to alienate large groups of people who reject Puritan ideas regarding sexuality. So for zero political reasons you wind up turning people off to your cause. You also inevitably invite people into your tent that have misogynistic and/or misandric agendas and often give that agenda a free pass due to the label you've allowed them to use.