The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by jwb

maybe. It seemed to me like he was somewhat irritated at society prioritizing sexual abuse above other forms of exploitation.

Like I said I'm smarter than him but his basic point stands even if he ends up sounding like he's bitching about men's rights.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

No, I looked up the statistics on women forced into porn and can't find ****. I found an article about how more and more women in Japan are coming forward about being tricked or forced into porn, but it just had the number attached to that case. We really lack a lot of stats that you'd think we'd have.

I definitely think there's a forced blindness about exploitation and bad stuff in porn since people just don't want to care. I mean there was that woman who was basically bullied into committing suicide because she agreed with someone who didn't want to perform with a man who'd done gay porn because there's a poorly kept secret that gay porn has an STD problem, but when you look into it gay porn does in fact have an STD problem.

It was treated as a problem with the people pointing it out as if they were homophobic, and regardless of whether or not they were there is an STD problem in gay porn that could be dealt with if there was actual responsible government oversight of porn in general.

Sure, I think any power angle could be exploited in the same way. However, capitalism definitely makes it easier because it creates a clear hierarchy where those that have the capital have the power.

Yeah but the Epstein problem isn't really about capitalism so much as it's about the problem of power dynamics in general. Someone who has money doesn't need capitalism to take a poor waif and use them for whatever purpose they want with the promise of food and status. It would exist under literally any form of government or economics that allows for power disparity. Feudal lords could do the exact same thing without having to account for any extra blocks to their influence.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Frownland

So your argument is that modern porn is kinda creepy? Absolutely who gives a ****? You waste your own time, dude.

How is that a response to what I just said? I swear you have the attention span of a ****ing hummingbird.

I told you what my point was from page 1

Incest porn is gross

Many forms of porn are gross

And I think they are normalizing ideas that don't deserve it and are better left at the fringes.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by jwb

How is that a response to what I just said? I swear you have the attention span of a ****ing hummingbird.

I told you what my point was from page 1

Incest porn is gross

Many forms of porn are gross

And I think they are normalizing ideas that don't deserve it and are better left at the fringes.

Yeah you just reiterated what Frown said but assumed that your distaste was vastly important while Frown didn't.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Yeah you just reiterated what Frown said but assumed that your distaste was vastly important while Frown didn't.

It's the same message I've been giving for pages now so if he just now got it then my point stands

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by jwb

I told you what my point was from page 1

You should reevaluate how well your argument is presented and how consistently your posts support it, because you've been all over the place.

[OccultHawk]

Someone who has money doesn't need capitalism to take a poor waif and use them for whatever purpose they want with the promise of food and status.

Once that takes place it’s a capitalistic exchange.

It's easy to imagine the end of the world but so hard to imagine post-capitalism but if there’s to be any hope we need to become post-currency.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Frownland

You should reevaluate how well your argument is presented and how consistently your posts support it, because you've been all over the place.

give an example

[Frownland]

No.

[jwb]

Alright, then allow me to retort

Originally Posted by Frownland

You should reevaluate how well your argument is presented and how consistently your posts support it, because you've been all over the place.

No

[Frownland]

Ignant out of spite, I like that.