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" For, MacKinnon writes, “social life is full of words that are legally treated as the acts they constitute without so much as a whimper from the First Amendment.”52 Consider, MacKinnon says, someone shouting “Kill!” to a trained attack dog. The law does not treat this as the mere expression of a viewpoint: “I want you dead.” Instead, the law treats it as a criminal act: ordering an attack. When the dog’s owner is arrested, is his freedom of speech being violated? If not, MacKinnon asks, why are things different for men who, by creating porn, order attacks on women? "

Amia Srinivasan , The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century


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Amia Srinivasan quote : For, MacKinnon writes, “social life is full of words that are legally treated as the acts they constitute without so much as a whimper from the First Amendment.”52 Consider, MacKinnon says, someone shouting “Kill!” to a trained attack dog. The law does not treat this as the mere expression of a viewpoint: “I want you dead.” Instead, the law treats it as a criminal act: ordering an attack. When the dog’s owner is arrested, is his freedom of speech being violated? If not, MacKinnon asks, why are things different for men who, by creating porn, order attacks on women?