Academe and the free exchange of ideas:
On 3RRR's talkback show this morning, they had two members of local
industrial cabaret-pop band Machine Gun Fellatio, recently banned from
playing at student unions across Melbourne because their show contains a
minute or so of female nudity (the female vocalist exposes her breasts and
does cartwheels or somesuch).
This is, of course, Not On; apart from contravening the anti-sexism provisions
of student unions' constitutions (and female nudity where males are present
is always sexist and exploitative; the context and performer's intention
are irrelevant), such shows could offend students from a sheltered background,
and there's always the threat that drunken male students may be whipped into
a frenzy of gang rape by seeing a minute or so of naked female breasts.
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