Porn, Morality and Feministing Girls Gone Wild
The sleazy piece of human excrement shown here is Joe Francis, responsible to the trash called Girls Gone Wild. Francis has made millions selling tapes of flashing college and sometimes high school age girls to closet pedophiles and teen boys who can't get dates. Cruising spring break spots with video cameras, Francis and crew goad drunk girls into performing on camera for free and then sells them via cable TV infomercials.
But it seems some were underage and his company got a big fine, community service and he still faces more charges.
In 2003 a GGW crew filmed two 17 year old girls engaging in sexual activity and others came forward shortly after.
Many are outraged, and rightfully, so that this odious enterprise has resulted in a fine that equals about 12 percent of his company's profits from 2005. There is a lot of outrage out there on the net and rightfully so.
Except.....
My favorite target for non-thinkers everywhere is Feministing. Check the short post and endless comments on the subject of Francis and GGW; everything from wishes for jailhouse rape of Francis to fantasies of violence abound. This is a website that revels in thoughts of violence on men who objectify women, once again, under some circumstances not a bad idea, as in unwanted physical contact.
So what's my problem with the Feministing ladies? The fact that they scorn and make fun of Mary Beth Buchanan for prosecuting people who write stories about the abduction and rape of children and men who make porn films depicting the violent rape and even killing of women. Seriously.
I don't mean to beat this to death, but the outright hypocrisy and/or lack of thought on where they stand on these issues of exploitation of women and children is astounding and will remain so until, I suppose, I get hit in the face with the brick that makes me think Girls Gone Wild is bad because it objectifies women and prosecuting people who write about and/or film the rape of women and children is bad. Honestly kids, I just don't get it...
3 comments:
GGW is disgusting. Are there any laws to prosecute these people who exploit some naive, drunk (and stupid) young women?
I am saddened to see you push forth Mary Beth Buchanan as some sort of righteous indvidual. As a resident of Pittsburgh, I have watch her misuse the assets of the federal government to target political opponents. In addition to this trend, she has utilized the public resources to take cases that are not within the juridiction of Western PA and are of poor legal basis. Why you may ask would she do this? It is because these cases are politically sensitive to the radical right of the Republican party. It appears that she is now being rewarded for this work via an appointment, and America will now suffer for it.
As she did in Pittsburgh, Ms. Buchanan will surely divert resources away from the intended purpose of the organization(i.e. women in domestic violence situations) and towards areas such as these fringe porn lawsuits. While I am not a fan of pornography, I am neither a fan of domestic violence and feel that this should be what the group should focus upon.
All in all, when will these political pay offs end. We have had to deal with a FEMA director that was incompetent and now this individual who has not background in social services.
The post protesting my defense of Mary Beth Buchanan is from the identical ISP Address, also posted by "anonymous" the first time I raised this issue; in that instance, "Anonymous" attempted to make it appear two different people posted comments. Apparently the Buchanan detractors put no more thought into the technology available to track incoming traffic than they do to their positions on violent and child pornography.
The same old duplicity contained in the statements "fringe porn lawsuits" (people who produce violent and child porn is EXACTLY what the ladies were critical of in the original post) and "While I am not a fan of pornography (Insert huge 'BUT' here...) prove my point.
They are not against violent or child porn prosecution unless it is taken on by the "right" (or in this case LEFT) people.
The comments about her taking away from violence against women programs show the abysmal ignorance of the facts I talked about to begin with. Buchanan has previously held high level posts dealing with domestic violence, prosecuted David Wayne Hull for, among other things, planning on bombing abortion clinics and, helped form units that fought domestic violence and child abuse.
So "Anonymous" and his/her cronies are not concerned about women or children or violent porn, just making up half-baked scare stories about people who dare to have a religious life or enforce ALL aspects of the law, not just the PC crimes.
I invite "Anonymous" to send specific facts that show how Buchanan has diverted funds ear-marked for domestic violence, though I doubt he/she would know a real fact if hit bit them on the ass.
Bob
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