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Wannabe feminism

By ~LS~ On April 1, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex, Sexism

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Pornification

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, For Wordies, Generations, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, Sexism

Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.

But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different way than the typical use of the term as a comment on the how advertising borrows heavily from porn’s tropes and porn itself has infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. I’m [...]

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Whoopi ~ Rape-rape

By ~LS~ On October 2, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, The View, Whoopi

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Another pro-family hypocrite

By ~LS~ On September 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: News Media, Politics, Sex

Democrats cheat on their wives too (obviously), but they don’t run on pro-family, pro-marriage, anti-gay platforms. The LA Times reports that California legislator was caught on a hot mic bragging about his sexual escapades. Apparently this man is having affairs with two different women, one of whom is a lobbyist. Go figure. CBS video of Duvall with some of the video shows some of the conversation. He’s seriously a dirty old man. So Duvall resigned and this is his apology:

“I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly, who are working hard on the very serious problems facing our state.”

Notice, he’s apologizing for his “inappropriate comments” and not for his hypocritical affairs. In his latest statement he says that his apology is in no [...]

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Amateur Porn Redux

By ~LS~ On September 30, 2008 · Add Comment · In Humor and tagged Tagged With: Sex

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Amateur Porn

By ~LS~ On July 23, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, Media Ecology, Pop Culture, Sex, Sexism

One of the things new media critics point out is the way that new media technologies turn consumers into producers. Nowhere is this more true than in amateur porn production. I just read an article in Wired about how the porn industry is feeling the economic crunch. One of the reasons that the porn industry is posting losses is the endless free supply of amateur porn. Of course, despite the losses, the porn industry is still thriving, but it makes me think of the relationship between amateur and professional porn.

The whole idea of amateur porn raises a host of issues about women’s autonomy and subjectivity for me. All the feminist arguments about exploitation, victimization, hate speech, and objectification become more complicated within the context of amateur porn.

1. One can say that in amateur porn, women have choice and even control (though the notion of choice is always [...]

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