Making Porn hurts like hell

[LadyHawkAZ]

203. Not what I said at all

What I said was, we (DU in general) only worry about the pain a performer is in, or the degradation of the job, when it's women having sex. We don't see multiple threads about how degrading crab fishing is to the fishermen, or how they couldn't possibly be doing it voluntarily- or football players, or ballerinas, or stuntpeople, or sewage workers. I don't venture into the sports forum, but the last threads I saw in GD on pro football were about -yes, the sexy woman performing at halftime and how degrading it was, not the violence of the sport. A few of us brought it up, but it got ignored in the rush to complain about Beyonce's costume. So, not a whole lot of people worrying about that out loud. Maybe they're worrying about it quietly at home?

The subject of gay porn performers gets glossed over even when people bring it up, and that's the biggest tell in the bunch, imo- the idea of "gay porn" is mainly associated in people's minds with male performers, who presumably are fine and dandy and consenting, because men can do that. Women, so the meme goes, can't consent without being degraded somehow.

We just had a dozen threads on benevolent sexism and the idea of treating women differently because they are perceived as incapable. Now we have threads doing just that, in many cases the same people arguing against the idea in the benevolent sexism threads. Half the time people don't recognize the very things they complain about when they actually manifest. That's MY worry.

Incidentally, while I dislike most TV, I rather liked Deadliest Catch. It was interesting and somewhat informative, if over-dramatized sometimes.