Hit me baby one more time

I was writing an essay about my relationship with the word "feminist," or rather, other people's relationships with my relationship with the word "feminist" so I started a Google news alert on "rachel bussel" + feminist and lo and behold, instantly I got a hit, yielding this gem which I will just post as is because while I think I comprehend it, I also think it speaks for itself. It was posted by sam, "antiporn star," on February 14, 2007 at genderberg.com. (if you really want to find it I'm sure you can.) The one thing I will say is that I do think these are good questions and food for thought--how do us so-called "sex-positive feminists" make change from within? But to my reading, the below leaves no room for that, leaves no room for men or women's desires that aren't incredibly narrowly defined, and even with that, only defines itself against. It's hard to tell what might be considered acceptable here.

Men hate women, and the more any kind of feminist musk rubs its faint stink onto Suicide Girldonia, the more men will run for their Max Hardcore, BangBus, Gagmasters porn.

I wish people would give up the lie that it's possible to change inherently woman-hating businesses from the inside. First it was how Candida Royalle's 1984 production debut would make porn more woman-friendly, then it was how Annie Sprinkle's performance art porn would do the trick, and when that didn't work it was Nina Hartley who was gonna usher in a sunny day for pro-woman porn, and then Carol Queen's porn shops would surely change the industry forever, but failing that Susie Bright was gonna convert porn-wanking men to feminism or at least a less virulently misogynist brand of porn, or the cause would be picked up by Tristan Taormino to make feminist pornography as widespread as "eat shit bitch" pornography (ass to mouth).

But don't get discouraged just because pornogaphy is more viciously hateful of women now than ever despite the lines of career spokesfeminists insisting it can be changed from the inside, because new to the scene is Full Frontal Jessica skillfully tricking porno-gazing men into passing up Maxim for her feminist book, and if that fails it will be the hordes of Hustler-subscribing men who get subscriptions to Audacia Ray's $pread magazines 'for the articles' and feminist content that will have cops raping strippers less in no time flat, while in a supporting role is Rachel Bussel Kramer voicing pornography's praises to the village idiots-cum-feminists, but just in case all these women working the past 25 years to change pornographic exploitation of nekkid women from the inside don't manage to make a damn bit of positive change to anything but their own popularity and bank accounts, well here comes Bitch Phd so it's all gonna be different for sex workers and other women from here on out. No really, the history of abject failure to slow porn's increasingly anti-woman propoganda is gonna change now as it never has before because there's a "porn neutral" feminist blogger on Suicide Girl's payroll.

sigh

I feel much the same way anytime women point to Sex & the City as some kind of watershed moment for the freeing of women's sexuality. How many times have women been promised that the publicly sexual antics of Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Jane Fonda, Cher, Madonna, Lil Kim, BritneyChristinaJessica and "Samantha" from S&tC would usher in a new age of less oppressive sexual mandates for women? As many times as the promise has been broken because men have women right where they want them and neither Mae nor Madonna nor Susie nor Suicide Bitch are going to change that despite delusions of insider-influence grandeur.