 According to Dworkin, the argument for anti-pornography legislation on the grounds that pornography subordinates women rests on the “frightening principle that considerations of equality require that some people not be free to express their tastes or convictions or preferences anywhere” (Dworkin 1993, 39). Accepting this principle would have “devastating consequences,” namely, that “government could forbid the graphic or visceral or emotionally charged expression of any opinion that might reasonably offend a disadvantaged group. It could outlaw performances of The Merchant of Venice, or films about professional women who neglect their children, or caricatures or parodies of homosexuals in nightclub routines.” Dworkin’s concern is a kind of logical slippery slope objection that he takes to constitute a reductio of MacKinnon’s view. The worry is that the principle that underpins MacKinnon’s argument would, if consistently applied, threaten many other forms of speech in clearly unacceptable ways.