I Believe you, I Believe.

“Q: Can you explain why you are so opposed to pornography?” A. Dworkin: “I find it strange that it requires an explanation. The men have made quite an industry of pictures, moving and still, that depict the torture of women. I am a woman. I don’t like to see the virtual worship of sadism against women because I am a woman, and it’s me. It has happened to me. It’s going to happen to me. I have to fight an industry that encourages men to act out their aggression on women–their “fantasies,” as those aspirations are so euphemistically named. And I hate it that everywhere I turn, people seem to accept without question this false notion of freedom. Freedom to do what to whom? Freedom to torture me? That’s not freedom for me. I hate the romanticization of brutality towards women wherever I find it, not just in pornography, but in artsy movies, in artsy books, by sexologists and philosophes. It doesn’t matter where it is. l simply refuse to pretend that it doesn’t have anything to do with me. And that leads to a terrible recognition: if pornography is part of male freedom, then that freedom is not reconcilable with my freedom. If his freedom is to torture, then in those terms my freedom must be to be tortured. That’s insane.“

Because as for me I sometimes feel that I am someone’s character. It is uncomfortable being two: I for me and I for others. I and my interior dialogue —I in conversation with myself. I am tired of thinking the same things.