Another day, and another new depressing angle on the Brand-Ross-Sachs Scandal has come to light. First there was outrage construed by the bastards at the Daily Mail, then there was Ofcom, Russell Brand quit, Ross has been suspended, top folks at the BBC have resigned - it's all a huge fucking mess.
And now - I should have seen it coming - an argument about Feminism, Georgina Baillie, and The Satanic Sluts.
The Times Online's Alpha Mummy, Jenny Colgan, says that in all this debauchery, it's "the girl" that upsets her the most. Colgan says that maybe "it's being a mum has done this to me", but she used to think that being a sex worker was "a valid option"; a job that should be "protected" and "respected". The key phrase here being "used to". She USED to think that.
And now?
Now Alpha Mummy wonders why on earth someone that is both "gorgeous" and "educated" like Georgina, would proudly call themselves a Satanic Slut. I mean, surely Satanic Sluts should only be ugly and stupid.
Colgan back pedals and says "while there's no suggestion she is a sex worker" - even though she clearly suggested and made the connection between being a burlesque dancer and a sex worker - she just "bloody hates it".
And you know whose fault this is?
Feminism's.
When, precisely, did feminism make this kind of nonsense OK? When did
it become alright for those 'porn star in training' t-shirts, the 'hot
stuff' printed on little girl's knickers; beautiful teen heroine Billie
Piper playing the rich gorgeous prostitute Belle de Jour? Dita Von
Teese is beautiful, and a fashion icon, but she's a stripper. Her job
is to encourage male engorgement. The end.
Woman. Do not even fucking get me started on you. Here is the thing...
This just speaks volumes about the problems I have with a lot of a feminists and the type of feminism they preach and judge with.
They say they want women to be equal and free and that we have the ability to make our own decisions and to choose how to live our lives without asking permission from men; without having boundaries put on us because of our gender, and to be able to go through life and make choices with being questioned about those choices simply because we are women.
You cannot then turn around and say, "Well...we wanted you to be free and and equal and have the ability to make your own life choices...but just not like that. You're doing it wrong. You're not making the RIGHT decisions! I give you all this freedom and equality and THIS is what you do with it?"
That is unfair, it's judgmental and it's fucking bullshit.
It's hard to not judge other women. We are all guilty of it. But I would much rather judge somebody by their actions, what they say and how they treat other people rather than by how they earn their money or by what they do in their bedroom.
There are millions of women out there who are "gorgeous" and "educated" and who choose to be strippers, sex workers, porn stars, burlesque dancers, sex writers, etc, etc, etc. They are not stupid, they are not unintelligent, they are not idiots or trash.
That is THEIR choice. You cannot assume that they are making bad, uninformed decisions simply because they are, for example, in a group called The Satanic Sluts.
While personally I would not choose to dance in a group called The Satanic Sluts (mostly because I find the name more comical than erotic), I'm not going to throw up the feminism flag and look down on her with pity and disgust.
Colgan explained how she is "not saying for a minute that Bailie was 'asking for' what happened to her" - but, the thing is, she given us the impression that she does. And a lot of people do think that. You're a gal in a dancing group called The Satanic Sluts, you've slept with RUSSELL BRAND for fuck's sake and now you're getting money off of selling your story of what the bad men did to you.
This Baillie chick pisses me off not because she was a Satanic Slut, not because she "should have known better" for sleeping with Russell Brand, but because she's selling her fucking story to The Sun and adding to the ridiculous clusterfuck that is this whole situation.
That, and her stage name kinda sucked. Voluptua!? Come on!