{"id":1178,"date":"2005-02-17T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2005-02-17T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T18:17:00","slug":"porn-and-the-objectification-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Porn and the objectification of {wo}men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj user=nakednerd> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/sun01312005.html\">link<\/a> to a recent feminist&#8217;s view of the porn industry from the inside.  I don&#8217;t know much about the straight porn industry, but she paints a pretty grizzly picture of nasty treatment of women in many of the products.  I&#8217;ll even bite that some gay porn is exploitative (though it was interesting to see Shannon (my ex roommate, and, like the author of the linked to piece, an asian female) avoid the question when I asked her how gay porn played into her theory of porn being at its fundamental base the exploitation of women by men).  <\/p>\n<p>I generally believe that no one is forced to do porn (or, rather, those few that are have a very valid legal basis for action), and even that not liking one&#8217;s job isn&#8217;t a good reason to declare that job off limits, because people are free to quit.  Some standards for workplace safety ought to apply, certainly.  And things like sexual harrassment should still be treated the same as any other job.  In short, I guess, my take is, it&#8217;s work.  Treat it like a job, because that&#8217;s what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted a link to a recent feminist&#8217;s view of the porn industry from the inside. I don&#8217;t know much about the straight porn industry, but she paints a pretty grizzly picture of nasty treatment of women in many of the products. I&#8217;ll even bite that some gay porn is exploitative (though it was interesting to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Porn and the objectification of {wo}men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}