I am a pro porn feminist. Many women doing porn aren’t doing it because they have better prospects. Nobody is saying that they are going to defer going to Yale for a year to do porn. Many of the women doing porn are doing it because they don’t have better prospects, the choice is having sex on camera for a good salary or dropping fries for minimum wage. Some women go into porn and go on to have actual careers in front of and behind the camera. It’s not something that I could do but if a woman can have a great time doing something that she enjoys as work and get paid well to do it good for them. I think that there has been enough time for women to learn from the generations that came before them to learn the pitfalls in the porn industry and avoid those mistakes and go on to do the work if they want to do it.
It’s baked into the conservative mindset that the past was always better than the present. It’s why, deep down, they don’t believe any social problems can be solved.
Serious question: Was there an uptick--massive or otherwise--around the mid eighties? There was this game, you might have heard of it, called Custer's Revenge. The entire plot and gameplay was focused on assaulting an Amerindian woman tied to a pole. But gods damn, I bet there was no effect on sexual assaults.
(I got to play that game as part of research in grad school. I had permission to basically make up the citation format, and that's one of my proudest achievements.)
And similarly, there wasn't some rash of kids going about shooting other kids when Westerns were the highest form of entertainment. But sure, let's blame literally everything but the incredibly easy access to guns.
If there’s no point in legislating because laws don’t work, can we have our abortions and CRT back please? And flavored Juul pods, if they actually went away, and can weed be legal everywhere?
I was born in the 60s and everything was fine when I was growing up, you know why? I was a middle class kid, that’s why, and for most middle class kids everything is usually fine.
Back when I was a child in the 60's there were no video games, internet and no one who got shot in a movie bled. The event that fit the bad influence trigger was the USA sponsored Vietnam War, complete with nightly body counts and filmed in color.
I do not wish to get effusive or seem like a smitten fan, but I really like Stephen Robinson's articles. They are cogent, accurate and cutting, and his prose style is ace. I just wish they weren't so true. I sometimes wish he was wrong. But it's not his fault that on-target accuracy has such a depressing effect.
Various countries are demonstrably more "godless" than the U.S. and still don't have anything like the mass shooting problem the U.S. has. Besides, Franklin Graham and his ilk seem to believe "godliness" means unquestioningly accepting the literal inerrancy of the Bible on all matters, including scientific and historical ones. I have to conclude that those who do are batshit, uninformed, or just had the bad luck to be brainwashed in childhood and never got over the brainwashing.Maybe all three.
It's not.And they never want to face the causes of "that old time religion" being in decline. Largely it's because the fundamentalist churches keep doubling down on everything that makes them unattractive. Another cause is the frequent financial scams and sexual exploitation by pastors that keep getting exposed with the regularity of clockwork. A third one is that the false places of religion are diagrammed, have been since the 1950s at least, by people like Vardis Fisher (the "Testament of Man" series) and Bertrand Russel, through to books like Friedman's "Who Wrote the Bible?" (1987) and "The Bible Unearthed" by Finkelstein and Silberman (2001) which examines the Old Testament from an archaeological point of view. (Bet right wing Christian fundamentalists would be quick to say the latter is diabolical just on the basis of the authors' names.)
Yes Cracker von Graham we’ve taken god out of most homes and schools I wonder why that is what could it be it sure is a mystery hmm hmm hmm. It definitely isn’t due to the decades of abuse perpetrated by the church on its most vulnerable members? Naww that can’t be it. Lessee, it definitely isn’t all the religious con men grifting their parishioners blind. Nope not that. How about all the vicious ungodly rhetoric spewing out of the hateful intolerant lying pie holes slouching at the altar? Not that either? Gee golly! Guess we’ll have to think and pray on it some more then.
Cold, dead, very tired and sticky hands.
Once upon a time angry white people could go out and rape or hang black people with no consequences in this country. This is not new.
I am a pro porn feminist. Many women doing porn aren’t doing it because they have better prospects. Nobody is saying that they are going to defer going to Yale for a year to do porn. Many of the women doing porn are doing it because they don’t have better prospects, the choice is having sex on camera for a good salary or dropping fries for minimum wage. Some women go into porn and go on to have actual careers in front of and behind the camera. It’s not something that I could do but if a woman can have a great time doing something that she enjoys as work and get paid well to do it good for them. I think that there has been enough time for women to learn from the generations that came before them to learn the pitfalls in the porn industry and avoid those mistakes and go on to do the work if they want to do it.
JD Vance is such an obvious fraud- it's hard to believe he's fooling anyone. But, here we are.
It’s baked into the conservative mindset that the past was always better than the present. It’s why, deep down, they don’t believe any social problems can be solved.
Serious question: Was there an uptick--massive or otherwise--around the mid eighties? There was this game, you might have heard of it, called Custer's Revenge. The entire plot and gameplay was focused on assaulting an Amerindian woman tied to a pole. But gods damn, I bet there was no effect on sexual assaults.
(I got to play that game as part of research in grad school. I had permission to basically make up the citation format, and that's one of my proudest achievements.)
And similarly, there wasn't some rash of kids going about shooting other kids when Westerns were the highest form of entertainment. But sure, let's blame literally everything but the incredibly easy access to guns.
Or they believe that they are not problems at all because, well, in the halcyon past no one complained...
Lynching people in the middle of the night tends to cut down on the complaints.
If there’s no point in legislating because laws don’t work, can we have our abortions and CRT back please? And flavored Juul pods, if they actually went away, and can weed be legal everywhere?
I’d love to know the Brian Dennehy story.
I was born in the 60s and everything was fine when I was growing up, you know why? I was a middle class kid, that’s why, and for most middle class kids everything is usually fine.
Back when I was a child in the 60's there were no video games, internet and no one who got shot in a movie bled. The event that fit the bad influence trigger was the USA sponsored Vietnam War, complete with nightly body counts and filmed in color.
I do not wish to get effusive or seem like a smitten fan, but I really like Stephen Robinson's articles. They are cogent, accurate and cutting, and his prose style is ace. I just wish they weren't so true. I sometimes wish he was wrong. But it's not his fault that on-target accuracy has such a depressing effect.
Various countries are demonstrably more "godless" than the U.S. and still don't have anything like the mass shooting problem the U.S. has. Besides, Franklin Graham and his ilk seem to believe "godliness" means unquestioningly accepting the literal inerrancy of the Bible on all matters, including scientific and historical ones. I have to conclude that those who do are batshit, uninformed, or just had the bad luck to be brainwashed in childhood and never got over the brainwashing.Maybe all three.
It's not.And they never want to face the causes of "that old time religion" being in decline. Largely it's because the fundamentalist churches keep doubling down on everything that makes them unattractive. Another cause is the frequent financial scams and sexual exploitation by pastors that keep getting exposed with the regularity of clockwork. A third one is that the false places of religion are diagrammed, have been since the 1950s at least, by people like Vardis Fisher (the "Testament of Man" series) and Bertrand Russel, through to books like Friedman's "Who Wrote the Bible?" (1987) and "The Bible Unearthed" by Finkelstein and Silberman (2001) which examines the Old Testament from an archaeological point of view. (Bet right wing Christian fundamentalists would be quick to say the latter is diabolical just on the basis of the authors' names.)
Yes Cracker von Graham we’ve taken god out of most homes and schools I wonder why that is what could it be it sure is a mystery hmm hmm hmm. It definitely isn’t due to the decades of abuse perpetrated by the church on its most vulnerable members? Naww that can’t be it. Lessee, it definitely isn’t all the religious con men grifting their parishioners blind. Nope not that. How about all the vicious ungodly rhetoric spewing out of the hateful intolerant lying pie holes slouching at the altar? Not that either? Gee golly! Guess we’ll have to think and pray on it some more then.