Fiona said:
The images men see of women do, in my experience, affect how they respond to women-- note that I don't mean it's a one-to-one relationship (and also I'm not only talking about pornographic images), but that they can cause misjudgements and misapprehensions (incidentally, the reverse is also true, I've found--
some
women can develop stereotypes about men and male sexuality based on the images they see of it).
I can easily believe that there are men who have failed to learn anything about RL women despite decades of contact with their mothers, sisters, friends, teachers, co-workers, etc., and therefore learn about women from pornography, but in those cases I don't think it's the pornography that's to blame.
ObB7: harking back to the art thread, it's true that the Federation
doesn't
seem to make use of images for control in ways that you'd think they
should.
Monumental art, OK whatever, but it's surprising that we don't see more propaganda posters, comics, leaflets etc. like in *1984* and *Brazil,* if only in the Dome.
Since they'd probably have gotten them from the same daubers who did the matte paintings, I for one am glad.
-(Y)