Why Porn Starlets Having Children Beats Right-Wing Racist Asshats Having Children (Or…An Open Letter to Asukasan)
Asshattery, Revenge of the Sexbots, Stop Reading Your Fax, Fool!!, The Feminist Sex Wars, The War on Sex/Sluts/Gays/Whatever, Wingnutteria October 7th, 2008
….or should that be, YouSUCKasan…
First off, the rantage which fuels my current rage, as appearing in the original:
How does everyone in the community feel about Jenna Jameson’s pregnancy? Jameson and boyfriend, Tito Ortiz, recently announced that they are expecting twins together, and I was wondering how you felt about porn stars(or I guess ex-porn stars in Jameson’s case) having children.
Personally, I’m against it. Even though my opinion means nothing to these people, or even to others around me, I don’t think that porn stars should be allowed to have children. I feel that it is a bad environment to raise children in-and I don’t even want kids of my own-and I don’t think porn stars deserve to be parents. If prostitutes are demonised for having children, then why not porn stars? Because doing porn is “legal” and somehow less harmful for children.
I don’t care if Jenna “has always wanted children” or that she said she would quit porn after getting pregnant.. I don’t think that she should have children. If Jenna worked a legitimate job and made legitimate money, maybe I feel she would be more deserving of children. I feel pain for her twins when they grow up, being known as Jameson’s children. Imagine when they go to school, “Isn’t your mom a whore*? Does that mean you’ll be a whore when you grow up, too?” “Is your father your real father, since your mom has had sex with so many men?”
I would hate to see a child put through that kind of life, because Jameson’s career as a porn star will be with her for the rest of her life-doing porn is the only thing she will ever be known for; it’s the only thing she ever wanted to be acknowledged for: “Right now, my goal is to be the biggest star this industry has ever known.”
Not much of a goal...
Now, others more accomplished than moi (namely, Ren, Trinity, Debs, Natalia, and Caroline, among others…and especially Ernest Greene, who has actually worked with Jenna enough to know that her motherhood skills are greatly underestimated) have commented on the vileness of such comments….and even some of the most virulent antiporn feminist activists came out in the discussion thread which followed this blast in challenging asukasan’s main point. Suffice it to say that the notion of someone who herself is unwilling to have children by her own choice attempting to get into Jenna’s uterus and dictate to her when and if she should bring children into this world merely because she happens not to like Jenna’s chosen profession — or simply Jenna’s use of her body for her own “selfish” sexual pleasure — strikes me as just one notch short of outright Nazism. No, check that….it IS Nazism.
I would guess that dear asukasan would probably not be so keen to the idea of forcing women not to have children if it was directed towards, say, poor people or dark-skinned people or the differently abled. In fact, if any male even came close to openly advocating that any woman should be denied her right to control her own uterus, he would be — and rightfully so — banished to the Patriarchy where he belongs.
But, there is the real world..and then there is the GenderBorg world, where all rules collapse to the black hole of the Sisterhood of Womyn Warriors, and where women who insist on their right as women to make decisions about their own bodies are condemned as sellouts, traitors, “sexbots”, “sparkle ponies”, slaves to TEH COCK….or just plain MEN. Especially if you just so happen to like the wrong kind of sex that doesn’t meet Teh Movement’s rigid standards.
That, though, is totally secondary to my main point, which may come to a surprise to folk like asukasan when (or if) she ever leaves the protective cocoon of groupthought and actually talk to and listen to women in the real world: Porn performers are ALREADY HAVING CHILDREN, and HAVE BEEN HAVING CHILDREN SINCE TIME IMMORTAL……and the world hasn’t spun off its axis yet.
I personally know of several moms or soon-to-be moms who happen to be porn performers — whether active in movies or on the Internet — and for the most part, their children happen to grow up to be responsible, respectable, and, for the most part, normal human beings, with no more neurosis than what normal kids endure.
And as for the particular case of Jenna Jameson cited in the OP: I’m guessing that considering all the bank that Jenna has saved up, and her skills as a business woman (you do forget that she actually RUNS a freakin’ website and has actually produced films featuring performers other than her…she didn’t make all those millions only on her back, you know), I’m guessing that she will make a pretty damn good mother….a hell of a lot better than a lot of “normal” women. In fact, I’d say that her experiences in porn and her skills in the art of sex will actually be a bonus for her kids, in that she will have a hell of a lot of knowledge in the subject to pass on to her kids….not to mention that she will be more than able to inoculate them from the very bullcrap that asukasan thinks that they will get thrown at.
Besides…don’t you think that Jenna has already steeled herself against the old “‘Ya mamma’s a cumdumpster WHORRRRREEEE!!!!ONE!!!11111!ELEVEN!!!ONETHOUSANDONEHUNDREDELEVEN!!” insult enough?? After all, she’s had to fight that chant all her life from everyone, including Judith Regan (who produced her bio) to Bill O’Reilly (who openly called her a “slut”…right before soliciting her for a copy of her videos….for research purposes only, of course), to detractors from the “mainstream” media (one lovely quote from when her pregnancy was released to the public from a tabloid: “What if the baby gets stuck in the uterus from all the semen collected from all the sex she’s had in porn??”)
Of course, having all but outed Jenna and all women who engage in sex not meeting her “feminist” standards, asukasan issues the all-so-typical “But….but…I’m not really a bigot!!” fake disclaimer:
(*Note: I hate using the word “whore” when describing women, and my use of the word is strictly for thought process, because not many people-kids and young adults anyway-would ever refer to a porn star as just that. They’ll use some kind of derogatory form, such as “whore” to describe a porn star.)
Oh, but of course…we “radical feminists” would NEVER, NEVER, EVER resort to calling a “prostituted woman” or any “victim of male patriarchy” such a BAAAAAAD name….that’s reserved only for sellouts and traitors and “cumdumpsters” and “sexbots” who are in denial of the true nature of their sin…..ahhhh, I mean, their victimhood!!
Oh, and they even get it wrong on the fundamentals: Jenna Jameson met Tito Ortiz (star of the Ultimate Fighting Challenge series and father/husband) right after she formally retired from making porn….which means that she won’t even be an active porn performer when she finally raises her twins. That makes the question of her being in porn kinda moot, doesn’t it??
Not that it would matter if Jenna or any other woman performing in porn was raising a child while performing; that is their right and their privilege, and none of anyone’s damn business.
This is the molten lava of stupid, folks. This doesn’t just burn…it melts steel. And it is the fool’s gold of “feminism”, too. David Duke looks like a freakin’ liberal compared to this shit.
ADDEDUM: A bonus SYAD/STFU to the commentor who decided to add the “SO’s/boyfriends/husbands of porn stars are simply pimps” smack. I guess that these women were much too brainless to get into porn on their own, right???
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