ImaginalDisc
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This is an old (Feb 2007) Tyra Banks show, but I heard someone mention it, and I had to see it myself.
Some background: Tyra Banks is a former model who has also recorded a song entitled Shake ya Booty, Hosted the reality TV show Next Top Model and whose modeling highlights include being on the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog and the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition. In 2005, she got her own Oprah clone TV show. This broadcast is a criticism of teenage culture in which she essentially says that lately teenagers have turned to prostitution and porn, and furthermore that the only explanation for making money that way is that those teenagers have a history of abuse and mental problems.
Sasha Grey is a 21 year old porn star who has done porn since she turned 18 when she debuted in an orgy scene, and pretty much does just about any sort of porn you could name, including bondage, and identifies as a switch (Someone who can be either a Dominant or submissive.) She's an atheist, and professes to enjoy her work, and claims she was never abused.
Tyra and other guests on the show, including the audience, basically insult Sasha, claim that no really, she is mentally screwed up, and her being a porn star is unhealthy for her, and teenagers in general.
I haven't even finished watching it, and it's already painful. One thing that keeps bugging me in particular is how they keep emphasizing how young she looks, even though she's an adult. It's as if the rules they want to have apply to teenage minors ought to apply to her merely because she looks young.
This attitude is as prevalent among liberals and conservatives, I'd venture to guess, but it strikes me as deeply anti-feminist and, coming from Tyra Banks, deeply hypocritical.
ETA: If the mods want to move this from the public forum area to the Forum Community, because it's expressly about porn, feel free. Tyra even opens the show my reminiscing about her teenage years and claiming that teenagers in porn and prostitution is a recent development in a false Golden Age fallacy, because we all know the 80's was a time without porn or prostitution.
Some background: Tyra Banks is a former model who has also recorded a song entitled Shake ya Booty, Hosted the reality TV show Next Top Model and whose modeling highlights include being on the cover of the Victoria's Secret catalog and the Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition. In 2005, she got her own Oprah clone TV show. This broadcast is a criticism of teenage culture in which she essentially says that lately teenagers have turned to prostitution and porn, and furthermore that the only explanation for making money that way is that those teenagers have a history of abuse and mental problems.
Sasha Grey is a 21 year old porn star who has done porn since she turned 18 when she debuted in an orgy scene, and pretty much does just about any sort of porn you could name, including bondage, and identifies as a switch (Someone who can be either a Dominant or submissive.) She's an atheist, and professes to enjoy her work, and claims she was never abused.
Tyra and other guests on the show, including the audience, basically insult Sasha, claim that no really, she is mentally screwed up, and her being a porn star is unhealthy for her, and teenagers in general.
I haven't even finished watching it, and it's already painful. One thing that keeps bugging me in particular is how they keep emphasizing how young she looks, even though she's an adult. It's as if the rules they want to have apply to teenage minors ought to apply to her merely because she looks young.
This attitude is as prevalent among liberals and conservatives, I'd venture to guess, but it strikes me as deeply anti-feminist and, coming from Tyra Banks, deeply hypocritical.
ETA: If the mods want to move this from the public forum area to the Forum Community, because it's expressly about porn, feel free. Tyra even opens the show my reminiscing about her teenage years and claiming that teenagers in porn and prostitution is a recent development in a false Golden Age fallacy, because we all know the 80's was a time without porn or prostitution.
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