Another Country Heard From
I don't think there's much chance I have anything philosphically in common with the woman who writes Den of the Biting Beaver. Indeed, her views strike me as horrifying and repressive; she hates pornography, reveres Andrea Dworkin, and slammed her own 14-year old son for having the temerity to suggest that fighting and dying in a war might be worse than being raped during one. (In her own words: "I stomped out that little glimmer of Patriarchal nonsense before it had taken a real root in his tender little psyche." Nice parenting, yo.) Worse yet, she actually believes in thought crime; she's got a detailed theory of why it's wrong and bad to fantasize about things you shouldn't or wouldn't actually do.

So why the attention? In a word, quality. Her posts are entertaining-tending-toward-rants, well-written, considered in the sense of acknowledging and addressing obvious counter-arguments, and fun to read. If everybody in this multi-sided culture war we're fighting came to battle in the same spirit as she does, we would all be having a lot more fun.
The above is from http://www.erosblog.com/

This is an excert from http://bitingbeaver.blogspot.com/ talked about above. This woman is disturbed.


YOU ARE NOT LIBERATED BY BECOMING EXACTLY WHAT YOUR OPPRESSOR WANTS YOU TO BE!

Why is that so fucking difficult?? Blacks weren't liberated by doing their slave tasks faster than the other slaves! They weren't liberated by putting on Minstrel Shows! Homosexuals aren't liberated by putting on business suits and letting us pretend they don't exist! Lesbians aren't liberated by turning themselves into sexual objects for otherwise observant fundamentalist godbags, and WOMEN IN GENERAL ARE NOT LIBERATED IN ANY WAY BY TAKING THEIR CLOTHES OFF FOR MEN!

*pant* *foam* *pant* *foam*

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*foam*
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Anyway.
Unfortunately, logic ain't gonna do it, because people, in spite of their conceits to the contrary, are simply not fucking logical. We can't logic women into opening their eyes and noticing that lipstick and tooth-bleach were also used by Mr. Jim Crow circa Reconstruction, for the exact same purpose.

(For those of you I just stumped, that purpose is to be more pleasing to the white male's sensibilities, to accentuate the differences between them and the white man, and to present an image closer to the one the white male believes is the truth already.)

We've got to EMOTE them into seeing it. The problem with that is, most women (particularly women in the beginning stages of adulthood, say 18-25) have learned to suppress their initial shock and disgust at pornography, what we would have them feel to emote them towards the truth, to please men. Damnit. A very efficient and subtle system, this Patriarchy.

So yeah, I get frustrated. I get fired up. I get pissed off. And you know why? It's because I know EXACTLY how true this all is. How do I know?

Because
I
WAS
ONE
OF
THEM

I was one of them. I was fucking one of them. I was a porn FREAK. I looked at some of the most depraved, disgusting, degrading shit you can imagine and orgasmed to it. I think about it now and it makes me physically sick to think I hated women, including by logical extension Madame Beaver herself, THAT much.

I know that fantasies lead to actions, because I did it and all my friends at the time did it and most of the men I spend time around have done it or talk about doing it. I lied and manipulated my way into getting face time for my fantasies in real life. I'm not going to go into specifics because (A) I'm ashamed and (B) I've been down this road before, and I've watched BB go through it, and I know that the next waystation down the highway is some smartass college brat with an inferiority complex and more insecurity than Iraq saying "Well, just because YOU were a sick fuck doesn't mean every adult male who cums while thinking about having sex with high school girls is equally depraved," or "I sympathize with your former depravity, but that's no reason to be against EVERYONE'S pornography," or "That's very similar to that Fallacy of Composition you were deriding over on Feministing, smartass".

Yeah, it sounds like I'm extrapolating my own personal individual unique experiences to the entire set containing x where x={PORN FREAK ADDICT MEN}. Fortunately for my argument, I also have an entire book of facts and figures to back up my personal testimony. So nyaa. Suck it. (yes, irony intended)


Oh, and the government:
"Psychologist Jennings Bryant testified to the Pornography Commission about a survey he had conducted involving 600 telephone interviews with males and females who were evenly divided into three age groups: students in junior high school, students in high school, and adults aged 19 to 39 years (1985, p. 133). Respondents were asked if "exposure to X-rated materials had made them want to try anything they saw" (1985, p. 140). Two-thirds of the males reported "wanting to try some of the behavior depicted" (1985, p. 140). Bryant reports that the desire to imitate what is seen in pornography "progressively increases as age of respondents decreases" (1985, p. 140; emphasis added). Among the junior high school students, 72% of the males reported that "they wanted to try some sexual experiment or sexual behavior that they had seen in their initial exposure to X-rated material" (1985, p. 140)."

But who trusts the government?

...and now I'm out of steam. Damn it all to hell, I had so much more ranting to do. But the flu has caught up with me and the medication has worn off and now I just want to curl up and forget not only that I live in a world steeped and marinating in blatant misogyny, and that even a significant number of self-proclaimed feminist women are participating in their own oppression by defending the single most effective tool keeping them oppressed as if not doing so would unleash the hounds of hell on their doorsteps, but also the role I played, personally, in making it this way.

~Dim


Thake a look around and see the future. It is scary, if this woman is anyway contributing to it.

So please feel free to pick her theory apart.

It's just to bad she wasn't blogging when she was lieing and manipulating her way into living out her sexual fantasies. I would have read that.

You gotta wonder what crazy shit she was into to have ended up flipping that 180.

Dworkin

Glam Rock guitar hero, Yngwie Malmsteen

Draw your own conclusions.

Thanks for sharing, Ivor.