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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
Oh, gee, I guess we should all call African Americans n*gg*r rather than Blacks or African Americans - after all, they're only a minority. Who cares if they get offended?
no, I'm going to stop there.
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Trouble is, Becca, that once you start demanding a right not to be offended you're on a very slippery slope indeed. Suppose I say that I'm offended by all the erotic fiction out there (the overwhelming majority of which is written by, and read by, women), because it portrays men as mere sex objects, does that give me the right to demand that nobody should be allowed to read erotica? Or might it, perhaps, simply be more sensible for me to take the view that, although it's not something I want to read myself, other people have tastes which differ from mine, and there's nothing actually wrong with enjoying an escapist fantasy which depicts someone as an object of sexual desire?