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[–]Anna_Nym 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The criticism of 50 Shades of Grey seemed similar to me, too. It seemed to be more about being Not Like Other Girls and crapping all over what other women liked than about genuine content concerns. People who recommend Secretary or Story of O as alternatives are not people seriously concerned about the conflation of abuse and consensual BDSM.

Current progressive critiques of art and policy seem to be very rigid and mostly interested in dividing art into Good and Bad. I've seen a lot of liberal critics compare it to fundamentalist approaches. Once something is slotted as Good, it can't be realistically critiqued... at most it may get the occasional "your fave is problematic" type comment. Once something is Bad, it needs to be cancelled.

Because sex workers and sex work are classified as Good (SWERF is also a slur, although not one with the widespread use or power of TERF), porn must also be Good, regardless of what it actually consists of.