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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 11:02 AM

  @Duderino

  Rather, these "feminists" believe that women should be free to do as they please, unless they choose to play roles they perceive as submissive or degrading.

  I support the right of people to sell themselves as indentured labor or even as slaves. Maybe we can amend the bankruptcy law that you get to keep your primary residence if you go for seven years indenture.

  (snark).

  Someone freely wanting to do something doesn't necessarily mean that that something is right.

  As to whether someone is coerced or not, maybe you don't know until that someone is in a witness protection program.

  And what is coercion? Would you agree that the third world villager is not coerced into working 80 hour weeks in a poorly lit and ventilated sweatshop in the city; after all the villager had the choice of semi-starvation in the sunlight and unpolluted air of his village. There was no "coercion" to go to the city.

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  Let's put it yet another way. If some corporation had asked for volunteers among its employees to shoot such a film, I do not know a leftist who would not be outraged.

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  Fortunately, we don't have to approve of the porn producer in any way, shape or form to get Glenn's point - which is that if make-believe sadomasochism merits three years in Federal Prison, then why are the Administration's torturers walking free?

  —macgupta Read macgupta's other letters
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