[Disclaimer: we've already talked about this, so I know that you don't draw the line at visual vs. text or anything like that, but refer to the porn industry, the Wal-Mart of porn, produced by people who don't care about body images that don't exist to make money off of the propagation of ignorance. Holler if I'm misrepresenting you here...]
I think we should claim the word porn for all of it, not just the drek. Just my opinion, of course. But it goes with my opinion on science fiction, which is that when you pull The Time-Traveler's Wife out of the SF section "because it's better than that," we all lose something.
I'm taking my cue from Alan Moore, who persistently and obstinately refers to Lost Girls as pornography, no matter how often media sources try to call it erotica because it's classier.
(I know we've already had this conversation, but I like hearing from other people on it as well.)
No. I don't think that I am being misrepresented by you. But I intend on giving you a holler sometime anyway.;) The construction of my comment parallels that of rm's "Pug not dog. Goblin!' which I fully intend to try and make a running joke. Because there are not enough running jokes in this world.
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Date: 2008-08-07 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-07 05:27 pm (UTC)I think we should claim the word porn for all of it, not just the drek. Just my opinion, of course. But it goes with my opinion on science fiction, which is that when you pull The Time-Traveler's Wife out of the SF section "because it's better than that," we all lose something.
I'm taking my cue from Alan Moore, who persistently and obstinately refers to Lost Girls as pornography, no matter how often media sources try to call it erotica because it's classier.
(I know we've already had this conversation, but I like hearing from other people on it as well.)
But I'll happily call it smut too.
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Date: 2008-08-08 10:51 pm (UTC)But I intend on giving you a holler sometime anyway.;)
The construction of my comment parallels that of