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NB: Writing from a perspective of someone who grew up in a conservative society (Tier 2-3 city in India), and may have a different take. Porn has become one of
by ankit219 6y ago
NB: Writing from a perspective of someone who grew up in a conservative society (Tier 2-3 city in India), and may have a different take.
Porn has become one of those buzzwords which triggers an emotional response and is used as a political tool by everyone. ("Taking away our culture and morally corrupting the young generation" is a common refrain heard around me by prominent people even today). I feel that anything which enters this realm where your first response is a strong emotional one (nationalism, criminal etc.) its very hard to get to a solution or even a way forward. Best is to maybe just change the word you use.
This article touches upon that, inviting readers to drop off if they are triggered by usage. I would say they need to read it more than those who are happy to read further and are not triggered. This is where the outrage about the NYT article had the unintended effect. The points were correct, but were not presented factually, and instead to trigger a moral outrage causing the payment processors to stop usage. To think of it, Pornhub was one of the few sites with financial power, resources, and motivation to put the stop to revenge porn and non consensual uploads. Asking to do that would not have scored any points for anyone. Maybe the solution I propose isnt right, but it is impossible to have that conversation given the vitriol internet generates for anything like a half cooked thought not agreeing to the mainstream idea.
- DC-3 6y agoSorry to go off-topic, but I had not come across the concept of Indian city tiers before, and found it interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_Indian_cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_Indian_citie...
- captn3m0 6y agofwiw, the usual usage of the term (as in the above comment) is not the same as the highly specific government usage that the wiki page described. The usual usage is just: Tier 1: Metro cities, the ones you've likely heard of. Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi etc. Tier 2: Cities, but much smaller population-wise. These are the cities that are getting newer airports for eg. Most state-capitals would fall here. These count up to around 50 to 100 depending on who you ask. Linked to national highways usually. Tier 3: Small urban towns. Population is usually a few lakh (1 lakh=100_000) at most. (<300k or so). It more-or-less corresponds to the X/Y/Z usage on the wikipedia article.
- nexus2045 6y agoYes, same with China. Tier 1 = Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou. Tier 2 is debatable but also cities have lot of economic activity / people that you would have heard of.
- hypertele-Xii 6y agoIf one's culture can be taken away by porn, one hadn't much culture to begin with. If one's morals can be corrupted by porn, one hadn't much morals to begin with. Where porn exposes one's weaknesses, one should introspect to evolve, not tilt against windmills.
- tester756 6y agoI think this logic is flawed as hell It sounds like "we shouldnt help the weaker ones"
- apta 6y ago> Taking away our culture and morally corrupting the young generation It's 100% correct.