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Furrygirl, you really are off on a charge, aren't you?
Do you think that female performers have it over male performers? Do you think that tranny and gey performers have less rights than female performers? Do you think that performers per se are the only ones with a vote at the table? Do all the other people, like camera operators, still photographers, editors, producers, lighting guys, retouchers, hosting companies, DVD distributors, management types, and retail store owners don't also have some minor, tiny, insignificant little role to play in all of this?
This isn't a feminist issue, that is what the christian-conservative nutjobs would want people to think. If you fight them on that issue, then you are only proving their point for them. For every Furrygirl or Kat Vixen, they will roll out 10 girls that will claim to have be somehow abused by the system. It isn't a strong suit for the industry, and you never should fight a battle based on your enemy's strength. It is pointless.
Nobody is saying "shut up and respect your elders", but they are saying "respect your elders". If you fail to accept and understand the road that got us to this point, you will have no basis on which to change things. Your "get rid of the $750 visa fee" thing sounds nice in a vacuum, but in reality it has in my opinion done the industry a world of good, because it has kept many a scammer from coming in and getting a Visa account and fucking people over. Don't even try to say "it limits free speech", because the entry cost to put porn on the net for money is still one of the lowest entry costs for any normal business I can think of. Visa fee plus a camera, a PC, a net connection, a host, a domain... bang. You can have a personal membership website up for less than a couple of thousand dollars FROM SCRATCH.
If you don't understand how we ended up with a $750 visa fee, you can't begin to fight against it. When you understand that there is a good chance that the choices are "Visa fee or Visa stops processing adult", most people would say "that is a small price to pay to be legit".
As SirMoby said (in other words) strip down your posts and extract the ideas and bullet point them. Your turning every thread into some sort of woman power rally cry is getting old already. You are amoungst mostly like minded people here, we don't degrade women or look down on them or their contribution to the business. better to save the strident stuff for your debate on Foxnews facing Pat Buchanan.
Alex
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