Sunday, August 17, 2003


Fuck you, Tammy Bruce.

I'm absolutely disgusted. Flipping through channels tonight, I watched the tail end of an E! True Hollywood Story about Jenna Jameson, porn actress. For some insane reason, E! felt it necessary to get an opinion from that over-inflated windbag, Tammy Bruce, who basically said that Jenna was a disgrace to women, and had no business bringing children into this world.

Again.

Fucky you, Tammy Bruce.

I'm sick to DEATH of the judgemental people in this country saying that women who work in the adult industry in this country are misguided, mis-informed and naive. While I don't work in the industry per se, I do write erotica, and consider myself to be part of the "adult entertainment" community. I'm not naive. I'm not fucking stupid. And I'm tired of people like Tammy Bruce riding on their high-horses and telling us all we're going to hell.

I did a little research tonight on Ms. Bruce. It seems that in addition to what I already knew about her (she's a flake - can't decide if she's a liberal or a conservative, though she claims conservative), she's got an axe to grind against NOW (and freely admits that it's against Patricia Ireland, who scolded her publically for making a stupid comment during the OJ Simpson debacle), and while I'm no fan of NOW myself (see http://www.thescreamergirl.com/nowsm.htm), and left the organization myself over my D/s tendencies amongst other things, I certainly didn't feel a need to switch political sides over it, (although I no longer call myself a liberal or a conservative), and I certainly don't feel a need to spout off every five minutes about something that's old news.

See, in part, Ms. Bruce and I have similar views. Pro-Choice, pro-gun, pro-death penalty. But it stops there. She and I define the word feminist differently. Evidently, to Ms. Bruce, feminist means "Don't make me look bad.". To me, feminist means "Do what makes you fucking happy, and damn what everyone says women should do." She contradicts herself in a thousand tiny ways in her definition, and it makes me wonder who's feeding her her thoughts these days. For gawd's sakes - the woman supported Dr. Laura and Ronald Regan! Two people that would rather see her lesbian-self incarcerated than living her life to whatever she considers "the fullest".

Ugh.

Okay. Enough politics. Sorry. Had to get that out.

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