response to psykickgirl's post Internet Porn is a Tool
agreed
Commented on May 15, 2007 by - aliceinreality
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I am a student at the University of Tulsa. I am a follower of Christ who's studying to be a clinical psychologist (who might do a WHOLE LOT of research on the side anyway I can) that probably wants to work with children and adolescents who are sufferers of trauma like sexual abuse and all kinds of other horrible things. I am interested in going to Africa to help dig wells if Blood:Water will let me (not 'til I graduate, though), and doing something real instead of just feeling good about myself for promoting awareness.
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response to MissSassie's post no one ever thinks about it
^_^
thanks. i forwarded a link to this comment to my mom so she could read that other people are hearing about her and understand.
she can probably use any support she can get.
Commented on May 15, 2007 by - aliceinreality
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response to Max Joseph, Don C, Jon Miller, and Cameron Cohen's post Internet Porn
o.O
i come from a family that was literally torn apart by internet pornography, and have two romantic relationships in my past that were incredibly abusive/horribly ended by internet porn. so, let that preface what i am about to say, i suppose.
i appreciate Good's unbiased and objective view, but i am also hoping that in the issue they cover internet porn in a more negative light than they have here.
also, i was a little disappointed to watch the video and see what is basically pornography being used to talk about pornography. admittedly, very clever and kind of cute, but also a very light take on a serious issue.
i love your magazine and you guys seem great, but i guess when things hit closer to home, i start to feel a little more biased. to me, internet pornography doesn't seem to belong in a category labeled "Good".
Commented on May 10, 2007 by - aliceinreality
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response to Rudy Adler's post Project 004
mommers
I don't know if this will qualify, but when I had finished reading your zine, all I could think of was my mom. She is overworked (2 jobs, one entrepreneurial and one as a secretary part time for an investment firm, not to mention keeping up with my 16 year old sister) and is the only income in our family right now because my stepfather is in prison on what we all think is a rather erroneous charge. All she has time for is work, paying the bills, and writing letters to/visiting my stepdad. Sure, she catches a movie once and a while, or comes to visit me at school, but she is almost always exhausted.
I think if she were to get a care package, it would be composed of these things:
-a roll of stamps for mailing letters to my stepdad
-a box of chocolate turtles
-a roll of quarters for her visits
-a quantity of calla lily seeds (or bulbs, i don't know how this particular flower works, or even if these are an expensive request. if they are, feel free to leave them out)
-a copy of the current issue of GOOD so that she can read Chains Of Love. ^_^thank you guys so much if you end up doing this,
TawnyCommented on April 11, 2007 by - aliceinreality
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i think that the politics of pornography heavily tie into morals. people assume that when one says pornography isn't good that one is talking about the impact on one's own life (which is partially true, in most cases), but the badness also comes from the effect on the performers.
separating them as a political issue, to me, is a little odd because you are saying that it is neither here no there that porn is bad, but that people being forced to participate IS a bad thing. the fact that most porn comes out of lack of choice on the part of a largely female group IS bad, whether your morals allow you to watch it or not. i don't think it can be argued that something that represses people by providing them with what are essentially very fake and rotten opportunities at some kind of living is entirely relative in its morality.
sure, in a utopian version of the argument where everyone is a willing participant, pornography's merits can only be judged on the scale of its effects on society, but we don't live in a world like that. until we do, i don't think that separating the moral from the political is a plausible or logical to view the issue.