Concerns about free speech undermining the equality and dignity of women helped usher in the now-fashionable equation between speech and violence, says famed civil liberties lawyer Nadine Strossen. Feminists have gone from arguing "that there is a causal connection" between discriminatory expression (a category in which many would include pornography) and violence to "denying that there is any distinction at all."
I had the pleasure of interviewing her last week about Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights, her 1995 book that was reissued with a new preface last month, and why free speech is a cause that all feminists should support.
