Censorship?!

How did I know that a discussion involving me and censorship with the chance to attempt to show me up as a hypocrtie because of my current show would draw you out of the ideological woodwork David. But it's really great that someone else white, male, middle class, and able bodied is jumping on the free speach bandwagon. Very helpful to the exploited.


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>If so, try telling that to Annie Sprinkle. Or Lydia Lunch. Or >Candida Royalle.

Oh I see, we're playing the pick the three empowered women (if indeed they are) in/around the porn indusrty and pretend they are representivitve of the whole game are we. And Chris Lewis played football and is on Getaway so all Aboridgenal people are succesful.

>Pain is life. Misery is a choice.

Do you get many dinner invitations David?

>Answer a question for me, Leah. Given the above statement, >how on earth do you justify your involvement in "Don's Party"? >Being -- in part -- a healthily ribald expression of early seventies >sexual positivism, I wouldn't think you'd want anything to do >with it, let alone in a capacity that requires Tim Collins to grope >your backside on a nightly basis.

So I see the "respectfully" you end your posts with doesn't extend to their contents. Thank you for putting me in my place as a woman by making certain parts of my anatomy a matter for public discussion. That particular scene is not my favourite in the play. The reason I agreed to do it was that I knew that almost every member of the audience would react to it with shock and the realisation that we don't treat women that way anymore. I felt proud to be a catalyst for reminding soicety how far we have come and that the rules of male female relations have changed. Don's Party is a period peice. (Would be very interested to hear what you thought about the parts that didn't involve my bottom David).

It's extrodinarily easy to sit in a privillaged position and say "This is the price we pay for freedom" when you are not now, nor ever will pay that price. I don't look at society from the top down with my weighty ideological standards. I look at it from the bottom up, from the position of those in the most need, and those who need to be protected from porn, from racial vilification and hate speach and from people who think, on behalf of these people, that they are being patronised by all this protection and would be much better attempting to stand on their own two feet and that equality means veryone should run the same race, ignoring the fact that some people start three or four laps behind.

I maintin that free speach is a luxury only the privalleged can afford.

I also don't understand David how you can think that producing kiddie porn is illegal and evil and people should be locked up for it, but making it freely available for people to buy is not only not a crime, but in fact an indication of a healthy society?

I'm with Andrea Dworkin. It may be pandering to the weak willed to sensitise what people are abel to see, but David, it's the weak willed who do the damage, who rape, who beat their wives. Maybe their minds ARE the ones we need to take into cnsideration, first and foremost.