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Originally Posted by DJilla
Don't necessarily need to wait for someone to be "appointed". Like the Nike commercial used to say "Just Do It"!
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I don't think I'm the only one who does take small actions all the time. I am out about being a pornographer to everyone but my landlord and bank, from grand parents to people I meet on buses and on non-adult boards. (The reason I don't tell me bank or landlord is because I am not willing to risk being out a bank account and a place to live, which puts be out of business.) I have been in countless discussions about the industry with people who range from fascinated by the glitzy world of porno to those who believe I am no better than a rapist ans treat me as such. I see many of the women I mentioned above also taking on such discussions, but I don't think they're as widely read by webmasters as say, Conner Young.
I think that the best personal action anyone can take is to tell even one friend/family member about what they do. The reason that there's this image of pornographers as waiting around high school parking lots trying to drug and trick girls into fucking on camera is that very few of us are willing to counter that. I certainly do not look like someone who makes "extreme porn", I look like a nerdy college student who dresses relatively conservatively. I'm not outing myself to *everyone* in my life, but the more people who we all come out to, the more we shatter stereotypes about who we are.
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Originally Posted by DJilla
BUT, I would seriously suggest that there should be a context and manner without militancy, no bashing, no attack style, no overt feminism (you try not to attach additional potential irritants to an already irritable subject to the people you're speaking too hence conservative style and look). Again, its all about the "message in a wrapper". I'm all for a female (s) voice, face, front, whatever. All she/they have to do is step forward.
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I'm not sure if it's how you meant it, but I could read that to say that you're not interested in feminist perspectives, just a woman to say what the guys would be saying. Involving women in any project like this involves taking into account their own perspectives, and for many of us females in adult, that perspective includes the big scary F-word.
Anti-sex and anti-porn feminism has slowly been dying out, and the "new wave" tends to embrace sexuality and smut a lot more than we did 30 years ago. My personal sum of being a feminist is that all women should do whatever they want with their own bodies, and that anyone telling them otherwise needs to mind their own business. (Be it anti-abortion lawmakers, homophobes, or people who don't think women should be allowed to fuck for money, or fuck before marriage.)
It amazes me that some women who tout themselves as "feminists" believe that their job is to tell other women how they are supposed to live and what they're allowed to do. Excuse me? Makes no sense, but it's a part of our "nanny culture" in America.
So, while a lot of people might only be thinking of Andrea Dworkin when they conjure up the image of "feminist", "feminism" really isn't something to be afraid of and dismiss as some out-there militant bull dyke idealism. And trust me, if having "women can do what they want to do with their own bodies" sounds too radical as a part of a pro-porn project, remember how extreme it is in many eyes, in and of itself, to be a pornographer.