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Revolutionary feminism

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International pornography consumption:

Indonesian Playboy debuts

Playboy magazine just made its debut in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country. As predicted by MIM, the Playboy magazine demonstrates firmly that Third World people consume less pornography than Westerners, including, crucially, Western females.

The Playboy magazine that came out actually had no nude photos,(1) a preposterous idea as far as the gender privileged from the West are concerned. In fact, despite having no nude photos, Playboy had organized opposition. Pictures from USA Today and BBC display Indonesian males leading the way against Playboy in demonstrations.(2) There were also armed threats against the magazines; even though Indonesia has a free press on paper.

In 160 pages, the Indonesian magazine even had few clothed photos. The skin content in any Amerikan female publication like Cosmopolitan was vastly higher.

The patterns of international pornography consumption and production break up stereotypes that Western pseudo-feminists promote. In actual fact, the females of the imperialist countries form a gender aristocracy, socially created men. Males in the Third World consume less pornography than imperialist country females--another proof of MIM's gender aristocracy thesis. There would hardly be organized death threats against Playboy magazine from Amerikan females, but there are from Indonesian males.

The evidence is not limited to Indonesia and requires study.(3) In China, Mao wiped out pornography as the West knows it, and even more than a decade after his death pornography in China was one photo of a womyn fully-clothed in a tennis skirt--in a whole magazine. Chinese cities imitating the West will allow more now, but the overall consumption pattern remains less than that in the West.

Russia is in-between. It has the largest Cosmopolitan circulation in Europe,(4) but the total circulation still means that acceptance is less than half percentage-wise than in the united $tates. (That does not surprise us, because according to our Belarussian comrades, the labor aristocracy is about half the size of the U.$. one.) The British population consumes almost as much Glamour magazine as Russians consume Cosmo, despite being less than half Russia's population. This is important overall too, because although Cosmopolitan sells in 52 editions globally, the United $tates has number one and Russia number two. It's not China, followed by India, followed by the United $tates then Indonesia and Brazil etc.

Despite the justified image of Thailand as a place to have sex with Buddhist children prostitutes, there is also another angle on Thailand reported to MIM first-hand:

"From the Western media, you would expect there to be porn all over the place here. Completely false. In Thailand, pornography is completely illegal. If you have porn, you can go to jail, like with drugs, gambling, and prostitution. I live on the outskirts of Bangkok, the only other foreigners who live around here are other teachers. But even in the tourist areas, porn is strictly illegal. When I go to a tourist area, someone on a sidewalk might whisper something like "sex VCD", and then offer to take you to a back room where they sell illegally imported western or Japanese VCD's or DVD's. But it is very underground. Even prostitution, which is so often mentioned in the Western press, is technically illegal, and the only place where it is in the open is in a handful of places heavily touristed by foreigners."

The Thai and Indonesian cases provide a good example of what MIM means by understanding the revolutionary vehicle. It's not always directly intuitive. Indonesian males are taking militant action and imperialist country females are not. Bringing out the revolutionary impetus of the Third World male does more for the revolution against patriarchy than the political and social activity of Western Liberal pseudo-feminists and the gender aristocracy as a whole. Despite the existence of entire collegiate departments dedicated to "Women's Studies" in the imperialist countries, a subject as simple as the international distribution of pornography consumption is not a focus of study in these misnamed White Nationalism Refinement Studies departments. They are afraid to know the truth, which would disrupt their biological theories of feminism. When it comes to the consumption patterns of pornography, Lenin's theory of imperialism and its decadence is more useful than pseudo-feminist theory.

Notes:
1. http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20060408.A02&irec=3
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4886686.stm ;
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-07-indonesia_x.htm 3. Very damaging to stereotype is that Norwegian females report higher favorability to pornography than Swedish males.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2372/is_2_41/ai_n6112873
4. Russian Cosmo circulation is less than one-fifth that of Amerikan according to figures from the Moscow Times. http://www.fipp.com/1317