Great, so now there’s some fuckhead psycho who tried to finish the job that Richard Dear started? Ugh. I really need to build a spaceship and look for life elsewhere.

Since those on the right are pro-life, I fully expect to see them protesting this potential death penalty.

So what you’re saying is that rape fantasies come from women’s primal id? And that it’s a common fantasy in all XX humans? Can you see how that’s equally as shitty? It’s okay to admit that sometimes we’re influenced by nurture as well as nature.

That’s exactly how I feel. I’d love to know how my (sex) life would have been different if the culture hadn’t been pushing fantasies of my own submission and violation on me since before I even knew what sex was.

I’m sorry, I don’t agree with you. Unless you can back up your assertions with something more than your say-so.

yeah it was a rough read. Especially the part about when one female performer passed out and they propped her up and finished filming and then left a check next to her. Disturbing. But it also was a really well written article with a perspective i don’t think we could get from someone outside of the industry.

I don’t judge individuals but let’s say I am suspicious of how many dudes have fantasies that align perfectly with existing patriarchal norms.

It’s in the article linked under the word “multiple”!

Right on. This “I choose my choice” brand of feminism is perfectly unhelpful. Nobody is saying you’re not allowed to like what you like, but when they suggest that maybe you like something that you wouldn’t like had it not been for the toxic culture you’ve soaked up since birth, they’re not passing judgement on you as…

And she had a great line of “I don’t judge individuals but let’s say I am suspicious of how many dudes have fantasies that align perfectly with existing patriarchal norms.”

Eh, I followed him on Twitter for a time and when it wasn’t burrito jokes, it was clown rape jokes and other assorted dumb bullshit. I bet he wishes he knew who started the “James Deen is a feminist” meme because it’s made him quite reknowned (‘til now!)

That article was horrifying. I didn’t know there were so many other allegations. And Sydney Leathers being warned to stay away from him from another performer? Wow.

And a lot of the shit that apparently went down happened at Kink, according to Ashley Fires. Was nobody aware of it or did they just choose to ignore it until it blew up?

That article was really well done. I appreciated the honesty and perspective the writer brought to it.

He’s a man, and he’s a man tasked with illustrating male fantasies for men. Are you not surprised?

Oof. That Daily Beast article is particularly bad. The allegations in there show him as essentially feeling like he was hot shit and entitled to just treat the women on set as his personal objects.

To be fair, Jezebel covered Savita Halappanavar’s death pretty extensively.

About bloody time they updated some of these laws. Remember Savita? Of course you don’t. An Indian, Hindu woman in Ireland who died in 2012 after being denied a medically required abortion of a miscarrying foetus. She was told “Sorry, no abortion - this is a Catholic country”. She died of septicemia.

Wars are won through several small victories. It’s another notch in the ol’ baseball bat.

I really hope the Republic of Ireland will sit up and take notice. Abortions are illegal here too and several women have died because of it.