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How to Make Women’s Bodies Disappear, Pt 1: No Women in the Holocaust

By Chris Hall
April 4, 2013
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The censored photograph of Polish Jews surrendering to Nazis after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May, 1943.

The censored photograph of Polish Jews surrendering to Nazis after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May, 1943.

The injunction to “never forget” the Holocaust apparently doesn’t apply to the women who died, at least not as far as the Haredi newspaper Bakehillah is concerned. When the newspaper ran an iconic photo of Polish Jews being rounded up after the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, they blurred out the face of Matilda Goldfinger and her daughter Henka for reasons of “modesty.”

Ynet reported that the Haredi newspaper “Bakehillah” (In the community) censored the face of Matilda Goldfinger, the woman who appears to the left of the little boy wearing a yellow star with his hands raised in the iconic photo documenting the final liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1943, following the Jewish uprising there that began on the first night of Passover that year. Goldfinger’s daughter Henka (Hannah) was killed moments after the photograph was taken….

In response to inquiries from Ynet, Avraham Dov Greenboim, editor of “Bakehillah,” said the blurring of the woman’s face was appropriate, given that the article was focused on the little boy. “In addition, we honor the memory of victims of the Holocaust, and we also respect our readers and only put in front of them what they need and want to see,” he said. The paper, along with other Haredi publications, operate under the watchful eye of a “spiritual commission” that ensures “modesty.”

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Filed Under: Atheism, Feminism, Gender, Religion Tagged With: Atheism, censorship, holocaust, judaism, rape culture

My Pro-Porn Week, Pt. 2: Kink.com

By Chris Hall
November 4, 2010
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Logo for Kink.comSo, on Monday I announced that as my way of commemorating Morality in Media’s White Ribbon Against Pornography Week, I would write a post every day this week about my favorite porn, stuff that in one way or another I think is hot and makes the world a better place.

Obviously, I’ve already blown that somewhat ambitious schedule by failing to get an entry in yesterday or Tuesday. My apologies about that; it’s less because I’m flaky than because I’m undergoing a lot of tsuris right now, which includes a girlfriend in the hospital while she gets turned into a cyborg by the doctors. (Long story.)

But anyway, I’m going to keep plugging away at this and get these entries in as best I can. Today, my choice of prime porn: Kink.com. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Non-Crappy Smut, Sex and Gender, Smut Tagged With: BDSM, censorship, kink, porn, prudes

Give Me Smut! (And Nothing But)

By Chris Hall
March 11, 2007
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“I do have a cause, though. It is obscenity. I’m for it.” –Tom Lehrer

When I first became politically aware, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, AIDS was making lunch meat out of every gay boy and leatherman within reach, and the term “feminist pornography” was an oxymoron to all but a very, very few people. What has come to be called the “feminist sex wars” was going at full bloody force back then.

Things have changed a lot since then, but not as much as I allow myself to think. Yes, Reagan has been put into his grave, but his legacy remains in the body politic like a festering tumor. Yes, gay men no longer have to bury their friends and lovers 25, 50, 75 times a year, nor are HIV-positive people classed as “innocent” or “guilty” and fed poisons disguised as medications. And yes, you can now declare yourself pro-feminist and pro-pornography without your fellow progressives staring at you like you’d just admitted that you moonlight as a contract killer.

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Filed Under: Politics, Sex and Gender Tagged With: Alternet, Audacia-Ray, censorship, Lux-Nightmare, pornography, Robert-Jensen, Sex Work

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

By Chris Hall
July 27, 2006
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Alanesq and I don’t agree on a whole lot of things politically; among other things, he considers Michelle Malkin a legitimate commentator, while I think of her as a picayune, mean-spirited, opportunistic hack; he has also been, shall we say, “overly tolerant” of the creeping fascism under the Bush Administration.  In short on 99% of political issues, he’s wrong, and I’m right (in a lefty kinda way).

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Filed Under: Politics, Sex and Gender Tagged With: alanesq, censorship, Melanie-Martinez, PBS, Technical-Virgin

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