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Wed Nov 25
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03:28 PM
Um, doesn't the idea that her morals should dictate "everyone's" behavior sort of contradict her primary point?
How about this: when you enter into a relationship with someone, make sure that their key values are at least mostly aligned with yours. Otherwise, there will be lying, fights, and general unhappiness.
Granted, this attitude isn't as "sexy" as saying everyone should be able to have affairs with impugnity and those who disagree with that dictate are backwards prudes, but it does make a lot more sense.
You'd think that Sasha Grey would see the attitudes leveled at her and those in her profession and adopt a more "live and let live" approach to judging relationships. Instead, she has the same black-and-white views as the mainstream, just in the opposite order.
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I personally found her to sound pretty immature and naive. Granted, she's got some interesting ideas but they're not fully formed or rather accessible in my opinion. If anything, I feel like some of the ideas she presented were fed to her from the porn industry. She came across as very defensive (completely understandable) and young.
I don't mean to lambaste her but I don't think she's in the position to be expressing her opinions on a wide range of subjects when it seems like she has very little experience or knowledge outside of her work.
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03:41 PM
This doesn't sound like me to even be critiquing someone's opinion. I hear this as questioning her right to have opinions and talk about them.
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02:35 PM
No offense to you other, perhaps more mature youngsters. There's just a baseline know-it-allness that indicates a certain need to grow up a little. Or a lot.
Young =/ immature, but you catch the drift...
02:30 PM
(Again, this is my take on this--just to pre-empt the people who were annoyed at me for defending Jenna in the Oprah thread.)
02:27 PM
She seems (sadly) uneducated and immature (based on this interview and others I've seen).
02:28 PM
Oh and I'm a secular humanist.
But fucking for money on camera still doesn't sit right with me.
I won't throw stones but I also won't accept it as "normal". Human sexuality is too complicated to just package it like a product.
02:39 PM
Exactly. Took the words straight out of my mouth. Using your sexuality/femininity/whatever as means to make a living is not empowering in my book whatsoever.
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02:45 PM
Something that should be free and natural?
I don't know.
#tips
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02:04 PM
Far, far less so with smeared mascara, watery eyes and making noises like someone who is being choked.
02:02 PM
Maggie's a friend of mine. She's a sex worker and an HIV specialist. Pretty much one of the most badass women I'm privileged to know. She writes a lot about her perceptions of the sex industry in this country - if you're interested, it's totally worth a look.
02:01 PM
I like what she is saying here for the most part and chalk up some of her gaffes to naivete.
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01:56 PM
She did totally get it wrong with the "Before Christianity and Catholicism took over most people were in poly-amorous relationships" bit and I am an expert on sex and sexuality through history (everyone has to have their niche?).