Idi, Vidi, Verte — Renegade Evolution Style (Or…How Bob The Guilttripper Meets More Than His Match)
Sexy Sex Intellectuals, The Feminist Sex Wars, The Fighting 101'st Progressive Headbussa Brigade, The Sex Pox, The War on Sex/Sluts/Gays/Whatever November 24th, 2008
So….Renegade Evolution did a roadie to Minneapolis this weekend with one thing in mind: intellectually bust Bob Jensen’s head in (figure of speech, Clones) at the latest screening for The Price of Pleasure.
From the looks of things, and her reset of all the happenings there, she must have succeeded.
Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to film the festivities, but there is hope the debate sponsors can provide her with their own clip.
Fortunately for us, she recounted all the fun at her blog. Some highlights:
Prior to the viewing, introductions were made, and for the most part everyone was very nice, but I noted right off the bat that Prof. Jensen did not seem at all pleased that I was there. PF [Plan(s)feminist, who arranged for the debate between Ren and Bob the Guilttripper] introduced me to him, I smiled, he did not, he tersely shook my hand, said “Hi”, then completely turned his attention elsewhere to initiate a different conversation with PF (who is awesome and totally worth initiating conversation with, yet still, I found this very rude). There was a journalism student there who wanted to interview me, so I went someplace quieter to speak with him for a few, then it was time to get things underway. The order of events was gone over: Jensen would introduce the film, we’d watch it, I’d make a statement after the film, then Q&A time.
Gee,,,how friendly of you, Professor Jensen….does she threaten you that much??
Later, after Jensen previews and then shows TPoP (the edited, pixellated version, BTW), Ren attacks..straight, hard, and without mercy.
I informed the viewers that they had just received a crash course in Gonzo and BDSM porn, but contrary to what the film claimed it was (which it does claim, in bold white print on a black screen), it is not indicative of the top selling and renting films of 2005- in fact there is not footage from a single Feature film in TpoP at all, and the top renting/selling porn film of 2005 (and all time), “Pirates” is not even mentioned. Nor, in any of the BDSM porn shown, is there a single female dominant featured, which within the genera of BDSM porn is a very, very popular theme. I also mentioned the way the interviews were set up and presented- very brief commentary from people involved in porn amid some of the roughest content they had filmed or content taken not from porn films at all-but rather from web sites versus lengthy humanizing statements from non-porn /anti-porn people was somewhat slanted, as was mixing drawings from torture manuals in with BDSM footage as no one who has ever been actually tortured as a political prisoner or whatnot signed on, consented and got paid to do it. I also mentioned that many people engage in sexual acts such as BDSM play consentingly in their bedrooms…and you know, there were a fair amount of people sitting there in the audience nodding when I said that.
Jensen rebutted this saying the footage they used was pulled from the most popular thirty films of 2005. Which is untrue.**
Actually, as Ren noted in a footnote at her blog, most of the material came either from the more extreme gonzo vids from sites like JM Productions, or from kink Internet sites like kink.com…and most of them were simply slanted and adjusted to fit the producer’s biases.
Just go over to her blog and check out the full story.
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