Breaking the Blonde Burqa

Occasionally, I get these really radical ideas. This particular idea came from Gail Dines' presentation on Pornography. Capital 'P' for Pervasive, Punishing, Petulant, and the big P= PATRIARCHAL.



A particular moment in the presentation stood out, among the many other amazing points, when Gail talked about what kind of woman is most prevalent in the upper echelons of the Porn Industry. That is, the white, blonde bombshell.

I am not a blonde naturally and I was much more grateful for my genetics after watching Dines presentation on the racist nature of Porn.

Putting black women together with images of the jungle, painting black women as inferior animals, along with the fact that women who are signed on and contracted within the major Porn companies are white and blonde, had me so angry I almost vomited. Not to mention the fact that whenever a company like Vivid has a contracted woman who happens to be a bit darker than white, the company quickly manufactures a bio that includes something about WHY she is a bit darker than the default blonde, blue-eyed white woman.

It struck me that if men are being socialized to lust after the blonde white women then those of us who actually give a shit about our society and our feminism could engage in a little culture jamming ourselves.

What if we had a global campaign that instructed blondes to dye their hair any other colour besides blonde? What if no pornified man could see examples of what he sees in porn on the streets he walks? We'll have one less category of comfort for the men searching for the image. The Blonde Bomb. Blonde Bombs Away. Bombing Blonde. Dyeing to Kill Porn. The Day the Blonde Bimbo Dyed.

I confess that I was incredibly happy my genetics didn't include the blonde gene. I also thought about my pubic hair and its blackness. It made me feel rebellious. Eccentric. *I* am NOT like those images. When men see me on the street, they will not see what is admired as the ultimate fucking experience, and thank the stars for that.

Doubly thank the stars for the ability to dye our hair. This is an example of a time where the fact that women CAN change is in our interest to do so.

Yes, I realize that some of you will protest with the 'why do WE women have to change?' Well, like any good culture jam, sometimes you must take the initiative, buy the black, red, or purple hair dye and go to town.

It's a minor rebellion perhaps but one worth engaging in from where I sit. I mean, hell, we burned our bras, so why the hell not?

Former Porn Actress Neesa Talks about CALOSHA, STD's and how porn isn't fun

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02aOLpIXiDw&playnext=1&v...

Ok pro-pornography camp. Are you going to tear this woman down like you're torn me down as a former prostitute? Hey SocialistReign aka ReignbowBite! Are you going to call her a 'butt hurt ex-porn star' and tell us all she's lying?



Ok, so most of you don't know the people I'm talking about so I'm going to break it down. Neesa is an ex-porn actress for Max Hardcore, who raped her and got slapped with violations of obscenity laws (nope, they couldn't get him for rape) and landed his sick ass in jail. SocialistReign aka Reignbowbite is a YouTube user who lacks any capacity to use the matter that's between her ears. She takes a hardline pro-porn stance. She tells people that sex workers and/or porn performers who leave the business and expose the reality of the horrors of that industry are just 'butt hurt'. It's funny how this woman has had no personal experience being a sex worker and yet passes judgment on former workers and does what's called 'slut shaming.'



Reignbow is part of the YouTube Pro-Industry camp. To get a feel for their tactics when feminists discuss pornography and prostitution please see this blog post from my blog 'Feminist Outlaws'. http://tinyurl.com/2uqwwwo



Summing up, Neesa has come forward in this particular video to tell us about the rampant std's in the porn industry, the lack of a clean working environment and her involvement with Shelley Lubben's Pink Cross Foundation. http://www.thepinkcross.org/

Porn Harms.

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The Amazing Assho..(I Mean 'Atheist') On Teens Against Porn

I was sent a link to a video by a pretentious Atheist on YouTube. This atheist, aka The Amazing Atheist (TAA), made a 40 minute tirade against an online teenage website called Teenagers Against Pornography (TAP), dedicated to helping young people with porn addictions. It should be noted that the average age of first viewing porn- ography is 11 years old.

WikiAnswers supports this claim as do many other researchers. In fact, many young males responded with their assessment of porn and the age at which they first started watching it:

Well, I started at eleven or twelve I think, it's not bad to start so early, I think I was just curious, but I didn't do anything in reality, so that's my answer :).

Yeah, I agree, as long as you don't do anything in reality, and you aren't like, yeah. then it's not so bad :).

Phew, I'm glad that's the case, because i started when I was eleven and I thought I would end up in jail or something... imagination...

TAA, whether purposely being sarcastic or deadly serious, is reinforcing the idea that addiction to pornography isn't a problem and instead simply thumbs his nose up at the site because of its' Christian view. He then proceeds to mock the site's '100 reasons not to watch porn'.

TAP's Mission Statement is as follows:

We are teenagers and young adults who struggle or have struggled with a pornography addiction. We've been through the ups and downs of attempting to quit and relapsing.

Their Mission Statement also states:

If you are a teen and you don't want to be given spiritual advice... just say so! Feel free to put a note in your signature on the forums that says you are not a Christian. We will respect your beliefs.

And:

We're not trying to have porn censored. We are not trying to exert our opinions concerning the harmfulness of pornography onto the law books. We are here to help teens who have already decided that porn is bad for them, but feel that they cannot stop viewing it.

Within the first 5 minutes of the video, TAA makes his first logical fallacy. He says that porn is produced by huge corporations like everything else, so why take issue with pornography when people already are slaves to the corporation. No need to be informed right TAA?

As of this post, this video was watched 14,500 times and given 4,850 positive ratings, 86 negative ratings.

I couldn't get through the first 10 minutes of it but I'll give anyone who can a free cookie.

Two Videos: One on Pornography and One for Deryk and Jedimasterbooboo

I haven't said much at all about my thoughts on Pornography and the Industry of Pornography. There's one particular place that informed me on what I already knew, but in better terms. This website is called Stop Porn Culture. This is the 45 minute video that I watched, that made things much clearer for me.

*** IT CAN BE TRIGGERING TO WATCH ***

Some of my biggest questions after watching that film are:

• What can be done to stop the exploitation of women as merely objects to be fucked?
• Where is the line between erotica and pornography? Is it mutuality, agency and intimacy?
• What responsibility does the pornography industry have with regard to young boys accessing it on the internet and elsewhere?
• Why do many men get angry when confronted with anti-pornography positions?
• Is it because they see the issue as an 'inferior' feminist issue?
• Or is it truly a human rights issue? Is there even a difference?

THE SCENE FROM THE L WORD:

The next video is to support and show affection for two of my friends: Deryk aka SardonicSkeptic and Theresa aka Jedimasterbooboo and TheLazyEvangelist.

Deryk: You've supported me throughout all the false flagging and you're one of the only people I email privately outside YouTube. Thank you so much for being there for me.

Theresa: We've been friends and sisters for a while now. I support you and am there for you to talk with if you ever need to.

I get by with a little help from my friends...



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