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Claire, I'm willing to re-read her but not to forgive the work she did around the ordinances. It took a lot of political energy in the mid 1980s to fight the ordinances. I am still not sure this was the way to help stop the problem of pornography. I'll always be part of the pro-sex, No More Nice Girls, wing of then women's movement. I suspect we didn't take sexual violence as seriously as we should have, I'll give her and you that. But I still don't think getting the state involved that way was useful. My two cents.

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And while I'm at it, telling women to punch their sexual harassers is not a very good strategy for many of us: getting hurt, getting jailed. Think about who can get away with this, and who could not.

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