The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure Edited By: Tristan Taormino, Celine Parrenas Shimzu, Constance Penley This particular chapter in really stood out to me becuse im an huge advocate for people growing and awakening in to their own Ah-HA moments, and this is what happen to Miss Love. Sinnamon just didnt have 1 Ah-HA moments she had several. WHich really had me on the edge of my seat when readding becuase not only then I learn so much about sexual freedom and that their too is segregation or racism in the porn industry as though it is in any industry. With this reason stated and with own personal experience Love felt the need to clarify that she is an "Black Feminist Pornographer". What i also learned from reading this chapter is that your morals should be judged on ones heart and their actions or what you might think they should/shouldn't wear. Not only did i learn that racism appeared in the pornography indunstry but how deep it goes. I mean this sucker goes as deep as a NAME. Thats right Love talks about how your name is a way to market your ownself in the industry and that "Black and Latina women in porn are very often given names of food, cars, inanimate objects, countries, and spices". She also goes in to say how the name you are given in the industry will allow you or hender you to market yourself outside of porn and to an wider audience. If I ever give an opportunity to ask Miss Sinnamon Love a question it will be " Why keep the name?". Since I don't here is Miss Love being drilled by someone else. How Double Standards WorkExcluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusice By: Julia Serano This chapter speaks so much to me on so many levels. I can run with it personally and say me and my fiance was trully going through some problems when it came to double standards. Or I keep it general and simply say i think its crazy that the drinking age is 21 but an 18 year old can enlist in the military and be trained to be an human weapon. So he can die at 18 for his country but his country wont let him drink alchol till he is 21. Backwards if you ask me.
Anyway in this chapter Serano talks about marked and unmarked. I really love how she breaks it down also. Unmarked traits = " are considered to be natural" " are often viwed aas mundane" "demmed unquestionable" Marked traits = "are often deemed unnatural" " are viwed as erotic" "Deemed questionable" " other people actively notice and pay attention to it." She confirms us all by saying " It is important to emphasize that being marked or unmarked is not something that is inherent in the obnject itself"
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Color doesn't matter! I'm Colored blind! Can't we all just get along! After listening to the podcast i decided to just take myself completely out the equation and look at it as if it was my personal life that was on the podcast. I have to say one thing. She states there are some people who actually get turned on by getting called Negro and getting whipped by white people (Race Play). She also asked the question how can you get turned on by being "DEGRADING". Wait a minuet stop right here. Even though I agree with her ideology on this being luticrise as a black women myself. I don't think its fair for her to talk about labels while putting labels on someone else. For instance the women that does like to play these plantation scenarios in BDSM they don't think its DEGRADING. so who makes us the JUDGE to say what is and whats not. I feel that we should allow people to have their own definition to their own vocabulary. Your DEGRADING might be my EROTIC and so forth. Just cause I ain't down with it doesn't mean i can say its wrong. Also just cause I know how the world will look at it, and it will be utterly wrong doesn't make me the person to say that. For example of my last comment. By being a black women and to have a white person to whip you, play plantation, and call you a Negro; and you get sexually arouse from that, then you crazy. How can you get arouse from something that your ancestors DIED over literally. Your bloodlines blood was shared , and raped. Thats how the world looks at it. Thats not fair. If that's some people thing thats some people thing. How about this. Maybe they are huge history geeks who love acting out history. HUh- huh.. what about that. Again i am just playing devil advocate. I disagree with the whole bullshit. But To me i believe its bullshit. Should it not happen. I cant say. I believe people should do what makes them happy. On the other hand you shouldnt allow people to put labels on you and being called a Negro or, field slave is a label. By you playing suit your not spiritually growing. Look in MEI am a huge advocate for not allowing yourself to REMAIN a victim. We are all victims of something at one point in our lifes. The real goal is " how not to allow ourselves to remain a victim" or " how not to allow ourselves to follow the label the world gives us as victims". Let me break it down like this. Anybody can recieve an A, but can you keep that A is the ultimate question. Knowing who are is essential in our day of time. The world is full with invisible sticky notes that are filled with adjectives that are waitng to find a home. When are we going to stand up as a union and say enough is enough. Who is to say what weight determines the fat ratios eligibility. Who did we put incharge to tell us what is thin and what is fat. I do not know about you but i never even knew the polls where closed for voting. WE allow ourselves to allow people to put labels on our own selfves. Why can we be people. I can tell you why. We are to mass of a human race to look at us all as equal. If we can group everybody and put a label on the subgroups from the groups we then have mass control over the entire race. Now i know your probably asking by now where the hell does vulnerability falls into all of this( hints the title). Well before i give you that i have to give to give you this; "realization is the biggest key in life" Without realiztion, vulnerability does not exist or co-exist in anything man made. Once we as a people relizes that we are the HEAD MUNCHOS, that we are THE BOSSES, that we are the HBIC's ( head bitch in charge). People will only do what you allow them to do. After relaizing this we can begin pulling off the layers of frobided desires or goals that we had burried. We can now be free. We can now and finally now be intimate with ourselves. Yes I said intimate. I dont mean sex. My definition of intimacy is: In-to-me-I-see. To me vulnerability = intimacy. Being intimate is the core essence in saying I am who I say I am, and I will be who I am meant to be. So no you are not fat and you shouldnt allow the world to call you a name that you didnt give them permision to call you. No you are not a slot and dont allow the world to call you a slut if you did not give them permission to call you that. Being intimate and vulnerable with yourself is knowing who you are and who's you are and knowing every inch or your erotic power that you have intially earned and showing it. So in that case Eff the world. To show you im not biasis I will become vulnerable with myself. I am a women who is engaged to another Women. NO. I am not a lesbian. Other women do not arouse me. I am a being who gender is female, who is in love with another spiritual being as myself in gender! And I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT |