Erotica v Pornography

Cages. Consider a birdcage. If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what is before you is determined by this myopic focus, you could look at that one wire, up and down the length of it, and be unable to see why a bird would not just fly around the wire anytime it wanted to go somewhere. It is only when …

…Take out one of the wires-is it any easier for the bird to escape? The same goes for the oppression of women: even if pornography is eliminated, the rest of the barriers still exist, and it is just as hard for women to proceed around them. Gloria Steinem does have a valid point: women are objectified by pornography. However, pornography is not really hurting women all that much; it is, after all, only one wire.