This morning I woke to a comment awaiting moderation on my Porn Is Good For You post from Canadian reader and fan Ashley-Anne Thompson. Being my biggest fan (sorry SFGate commenters!) she left her hotmail address, a link to her life through an antique lens YouTube channel and this message:
“please grow up. you’re not misunderstood, deep, dark, you fucking promote violence against women and you use your “orgasm” rhetoric to feel good about exploiting humans. you’re a disgrace to everything feminism tries to do.”
Then shit got real. She loved me so hard that she maded me a video. It’s above. Don’t bother fast-forwarding to the fap scene, because there isn’t one. That was the first thing I did, because the other girls in the frat told me to.
Now, I’m not going to insult Ashley-Anne’s acting skills because clearly this video came from the heart. When someone goes to this much trouble to show you their feelings, you just have to go wow. And I want to support that she might be shopping at Hot Topic now that she’s copped my style. It works for her. I also love the clever irony: getting ‘in your face’ about someone who ‘gets in your face’ about porn is brilliantly meta. Additionally, I want to point out that Ashley-Anne may not portray me as dramatically as I’d like, but she does one thing absolutely perfectly: she literally embodies the reason I continue to state that I am not a feminist. If you don’t feel like watching the video and soaking up Thompson’s brand of feminism, just close your eyes and imagine a bus full of angry old ladies bursting into flames.
Hopefully, Ashley-Anne Thompson’s message will reach all the right people. She really hit on something with her technique. Bait bloggers in their comments with insults and a link to the creepy video you made dressed like them, in which you make unsubstantiated claims about data and craft a very unsettling, mean-spirited attack on how they look, write, speak, and who they work with — this is GREAT for the feminist anti-porn argument. It helps everyone take it seriously. It’s getting so bad out there that women are doing violence to each other all for the sake of orgasms!
I think that Ashley is now my favorite amateur pornographer on YouTube. I want to introduce Antiquelens to my other favorite YouTube artist Dr. Steve Rooster in the hopes that someday they make a video together:
(Dr. Steve is via Dlisted)
A true pwnage video on our dear Ashley-Anne standing up for a fellow obnoxious radfem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1wBexp51mQ
As to the Steve Rooster video, that’s got to be the ultimate in sexyfail!
That man seriously gave the heeby jeebies!!! =O! EWW…
She has flagged my videos for using a screen capture from this blog and linking to this blog. I have been accused of “dropping her docs.” She’s a fucking idiot. I’m not going to be nice to her anymore. She needs to stop acting like a baby, she dropped her own docs.
First, to TheMadShangi and menareangrynow: I stand corrected on your comment…but as someone who doe sympathize with and supports the more open-minded, progressive wing of feminism, I have to stand by my belief that MRA’s and radfems are closer to each other than to the rest of society…in the same way that Brithers and Maoists are so far apart and yet so close to each other. I just so happen to reject them both as equally whack.
And to Violet: Considering that I not only listed Ms. Thompson’s name in my own blog entry about her ranting and pixelatted stalking of you, but even went so far as to include her real name in the title of my post; I’d think that I would be far more a target for any police actions by her. Fortunately, both the First Amendment and proper netiquette (and the fact that she herself put her real name out there in her original response to you, which she ironically first claimed to be an act of “censorship”) protects both your and my right to expose her slipshodness for the world to see.
Besides…even her Deviant Art photo page from which she herself posts her real name isn’t immune from her political ideology…she proudly lists Robert Jensen’s antiporn extremist tome Getting Off: Pornography and Masculinity as her primary reading source.
In other words, she makes Orly Taitz seem sane in comparison.
Anthony
so, Ashley-Anne Thompson has attempted to leave a few comments here, and for obvious reasons I’m not making her an approved commenter. she has not tried to email me or contact me directly about having a conversation, or anything else, and her use of multiple email addresses has made me even more wary. however, I’m pointing out that her last comment is ordering me to take her name off of this post, or she will call the police.
I am not the first online outlet to publish Ms. Thompson’s name on the internet. I found it through Google very easily, here:
http://kitschykoomag.blogspot.com/2009/05/fab-ashley-anne-thompson.html
Hey, I made a video about this very article. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VCuess1WEA
Feminism is incredibly varied, varies from person to person, and to let one person’s (or a few peoples) view cause you to denounce the name of feminism altogether is unfortunate. Feminism at its base is believing in human rights, equality, and empowering the traditionally disempowered. Unfortunately a fear of the word has been perpetuated by mainstream media, and thus misinformation about its meaning. Most women who call themselves feminists are very much pro-sex and pleasure, but many do have problems with aspects of pornography, usually in general the depiction of women in mainstream porn and/or the treatment of women in the porn industry. However, most feminists I know, while tending to prefer alternative venues, enjoy watching porn, reading erotica, and using sex toys as much as the next sexually healthy and empowered person. And although i havent followed this blog for very long, I think you, violet blue, have done a lot to provide info and access to alternative resources that are very sexually empowering, playful and beautiful. For me, that is a big part what feminism is all about.
@Anthony Kennerson
“Antifeminist MRA’s and antiporn radfems are more closer to each other than they are to the rest of the real world”
Really? I tend to think the rest of the world are somewhere in the middle, in a tug-o-war match between the afore mentioned groups. I as an antifeminist MRA don’t tend to think of myself as anywhere near an antiporn feminist; because I support the right of people to choose whatever jobs they want, including being a porn star. In addition, I don’t believe in other major tenets of feminism such as patriarchy theory, as I find it historically lacking and a borderline conspiracy theory, not that different from what NWO supporters profess.
Anyway, that’s my 2 cents.