My political life for the past dozen years has been anchored in resistance to the pornography of men and the wars of the United States, the struggle against patriarchy and empire. That means my life has been saturated with images of cruelty, from the intimate to the global. To be effective, contemporary mass-marketed pornography and modern war both require cruelty and contempt. Pornography and the wars of the U.S. empire both depend for their success on the process of rendering human beings less-than-fully-human so they can be hurt. This paper examines the connections between pornography and war, and between feminism and a movement to resist U.S. militarism and imperialism.