Montana prude professor frets about college sex column

You sound surprised.

 

So, it would be OK then to run a regular column -- not an op/ed piece, but weekly feature, say in the "lifestyle" section -- listing creative ways to beat up your girlfriend or repress minorities or hurl insults at Jews? Of course not. We, as newspapers/media, have a place in everyday society, and society should have some standards. Tolerance should work both ways, right?

 

WTF?

 

OK as in legal? Within the publication's and author's free speech rights?

Or OK as in socially acceptable?

My media law's rusty, but I believe the right for the paper to publish said columns is still protected unless it can be proven that they are a grave danger to the public. The readership would likely abandon any paper who runs such racist or mysoginistic material.

We serve the readers. They chose whether or not to read.

 

Thanks, Mr. Doyle.

 

Yes, it would be okay to run those stories in my book. I'm not saying they should run. Only the editors and owners of a publication should decide what should run. But if some paper ran a how-to on how to beat your girlfriend/spouse up, then advertisers pull out, people stop buying the paper, and the publication goes under.

 

Do you really not understand the fundamental differences between a student newspaper advice column that attempts to tackle questions of sexuality on a college campus — arguably the most sexually active audience any newspaper has — and actively advocating domestic violence and/or antisemitism in a general-circulation newspaper?

Are you that dense?

 

So we're okay with actively attempting to ban offensive content through legal channels, as long as it's *really* offensive and not just sort of offensive to old people?

 

Show me where I said I was in favor of banning anything.

 

Yep.

We have to endure these waves of gross stupidity, periodically.

 

on a side note: don't google chocolate vulva on a stick.
just don't.

 

When you accuse a guy arguing against banning of being "dense," it's implied.