But she, this nonhuman thing, says hurt me-and the more you hurt me, the more I will like it.
She is the only object with a will that says, hurt me. And red or purple marks the spot where he's supposed to get you. But being turned into an object is a real event and the pornographic object is a particular kind of object. We hope that people will think that we are very smart when we use a long word. It happens in real life it happens to stigmatized people. We are not talking about violence yet we are nowhere near violence.ĭehumanization is real. I am describing a process of dehumanization, a concrete means of changing someone into something. Our mouths are used and our throats are used for deep penetration. Our rectums are highlighted so that he knows where to push. Our vaginal lips are painted purple for the consumer to clue him in as to where to focus his attention such as it is. We are flattened on the page or on the screen.
Women's lives are made two-dimensional and dead. MacKinnon and I called it a practice when we described it in the antipornography civil-rights ordinance that we drafted for the City of Minneapolis in 1983 but the point is that it happens. Lawyers, call it what you want-call it speech, call it act, call it conduct.
Mirrored from the Andrea Dworkin Online Library.įor twenty years, people that you know and people that you do not know inside the women's movement, with its great grass-roots breadth and strength, have been trying to communicate something very simple: pornography happens.
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