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In reply to the discussion: The Blue Devil in Miss Belle Knox: Meet Duke Porn Star Miriam Weeks [View all]redqueen
(115,186 posts)97. Did you also contact the admins about your opinion that I should be PPRd for saying
that people were posting MRA talking points on DU?
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As a feminist, I'm tired of the widespread abuse, assault, and rape in porn being ignored,
redqueen
Aug 2014
#11
It is a story of a woman who was beaten and spat on at a job. And it was filmed
redqueen
Aug 2014
#17
"It is a story of a woman who was beaten and spat on at a job." Yet, she stayed in the profession.
Yavin4
Aug 2014
#51
Yes, it is misogynistic to criticize an industry in which women are beaten and spat on
redqueen
Aug 2014
#54
So your issue is with workplace safety? Ms. Knox isn't complaining to OSHA, and
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#66
Why don't you find out why all those other ex porn performers say it about their statements?
redqueen
Aug 2014
#73
For starters, each interview takes a lot of work just to set up. But, we'll see.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#76
My opinion is by far the minority opinion. You would rather interview the pro-industry woman
redqueen
Aug 2014
#77
Of course. Have fun backing the multi-billion dollar industry by focusing on its supporters.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#80
He tried to get me PPRd for saying that people were posting MRA talking points on DU.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#86
It was in Meta, which is gone. I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers. nt
redqueen
Aug 2014
#92
He's right--serious accusations against DUers without proof should be PPR worthy. nt
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#96
Yes. I do it all the time when someone posts a RW meme....if you accuse someone, cite
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#108
Exactly. Just like accusing someone of using KKK or Nazi/stormfront talking points.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#111
Sadly, her prodigious posting history suggests she indeed does believe that...
opiate69
Aug 2014
#112
Oh she doesn't have to cite, I think willy-nilly accusations of DUers being in hate groups without
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#93
Did you also contact the admins about your opinion that I should be PPRd for saying
redqueen
Aug 2014
#97
And are you still confused at all about whether those kinds of talking points are posted here? nt
redqueen
Aug 2014
#107
Not confused. It's rare. But your accusations of people using them is not rare. nt
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#110
It has always been rare to have MRA talking points here. Here are MRA Talking points
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#123
What do you want a membership card Steven? Do you think you know more than women who are the
seaglass
Aug 2014
#161
Don't give me that, that is a copout. It's not hard. When we talk about hate groups like
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#162
How interesting, you dismiss what I say with zero evidence. You had the tools at your fingertips,
seaglass
Aug 2014
#163
If he is your source that you are citing, you provide the link. Lets see it. nt
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#164
Half an hour later and you still couldn't provide links. I scanned some of his posts. No, he
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#166
Definitely....maybe you should have redqueen on your show with Ms. Knox. Or she can certainly call
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#82
See my #76 above. RQ seems to want to namecall and criticize rather than do any work at all.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#83
And now check out the excuse she is trying to use. But she could accuse me of not wanting to
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#91
We should never feel sorry for anyone compelled into a decision via the righteous...
LanternWaste
Aug 2014
#75
Economic coercion? Yes--she had no choice but to do porn in order to pay for Duke. No other
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#79
Most women in porn aren't doing it to pay for Ivy League educations. But you know that. nt
redqueen
Aug 2014
#116
We are talking about Ms. Knox. Not other women in porn. I mean, if you wanted to talk about
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#118
You will get those responses, but this is a good OP. Even that .00001% of the girls who are
Squinch
Aug 2014
#3
I consider widespread workplace abuse - including assault and rape - to be a political issue.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#7
Just because I don't approve or disapprove doesn't mean she won't face societal consequences.
Calista241
Aug 2014
#149
Because she isn't the only one who has exposed the way this industry operates.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#10
So porn is not okay but erotica is? Can you point to some acceptable erotica?
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#147
So your suggested solution to the "porn problem" is "stop looking at dirty pictures"?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#141
I find your dismissal of her lived experience disturbing and inconsistent with feminist scholarship.
LeftyMom
Aug 2014
#22
Except I didn't say other jobs were 100% not degrading and harassment-free, did I? nt
redqueen
Aug 2014
#25
I witnessed a legal secretary be called the C-word in an office full of people by a partner
Yavin4
Aug 2014
#32
Many people are. But just like many other types of addicts, they are in denial.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#26
addiction sucks ass, I hate to admit it finally, but I'm addicted to twerking, can there be help?
snooper2
Aug 2014
#29
IYO, women in porn "probably" agree to have their objections ignored. Got it. nt
redqueen
Aug 2014
#90
So only the women in certain fetish porn should expect to have their objections igored? nt
redqueen
Aug 2014
#106
"A woman is free to make her own choices and do whatever she wants with her body...
LostInAnomie
Aug 2014
#39
To be fair, it's brighter than cherry picking an article for inflammatory quotes.
LostInAnomie
Aug 2014
#70
No, I didn't imply that. You inferred it because it is preferable to acknowedging her assault.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#74
Let me ask you a question, in your opinion, is it possible for a woman to ever be well-informed...
LostInAnomie
Aug 2014
#68
The question does matter. I absolutely speaks to the agency of all women...
LostInAnomie
Aug 2014
#146
Agency does not mean freedom from criticism of whatever thing a person chooses to participate in
kcr
Aug 2014
#150
Sweat shops are explicitly coercive. Black market organ trafficking is illegal. Porn is neither.
LostInAnomie
Aug 2014
#151
Again, that is not what I asked. Can a woman make a well-informed decision...
LostInAnomie
Aug 2014
#145
As An African American, I see other African Americans do things that I don't like, but...
Yavin4
Aug 2014
#48
And yet your other thread calls for criminalizing a similar sex trade because of misogyny,
LadyHawkAZ
Aug 2014
#45
There are a lot of those sorts of questions, that never seem to get answered.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2014
#167
My pleasure. I was serious about making this issue clear, whether people want to address it or not.
redqueen
Aug 2014
#56
so i can understand her opinion if she felt she had bad experience as waitress.
alp227
Aug 2014
#124
...and she's being held hostage if she gets a job at the College Bookstore?
brooklynite
Aug 2014
#127
for the most part, college bookstores don't mistreat workers as much as the porn industry. nt
alp227
Aug 2014
#131