Merf. Thinking is Hard.

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peachtulle:

jhameia:

novazembla:

she-hulk-smash:

elizablr:

brianvan:

I consider myself a very open minded person, but if I had a kid and I found out after the fact that Sasha Grey had read books to his/her class, I’m not sure how I would process that. Perhaps I’d need some Chlorox surface wipes, at least.

Not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed that I had no idea who Sasha Grey is, but yeah - I didn’t. So I googl’d ‘er.
And yeah…I don’t think I would want the person reading stories to my kid to have won the following awards:
“Best Three Way Sex Scene”
“Best Group Scene” (They mean ‘orgy’, y’all)
“Best Oral Sex Scene”
Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with working in porn, I just wouldn’t want my daughter to come home talking about this ‘nice lady’ who read them books, only to later come to me asking, “what’s an orgy?”
Planning on saving that talk for 9th grade…

Assuming that sex workers are permanently dirty and always covered in jizz is not a sign of open minded thinking. And, if you truly thought that there was “nothing necessarily wrong” with working in the porn industry, you would have zero issue with this at all. At least be honest with your biases.
Sasha Grey didn’t waltz into that classroom wearing a shirt that says “I DO PORN. EVERYBODY LOOK IT UP.” It’s upsetting that people expect porn stars to sequester themselves away and not have lives outside of their work. They don’t spend all their time having sex, and a fair amount of them don’t parade around flaunting what they do for a living. Beyond that, Sasha was helping kids learn to read with Read Across America. She wasn’t reading them erotica or giving them a talk about the porn industry, she was doing charity work. Believe it or not, people who do porn have hearts just like everyone else. The audacity those parents have to be incensed that someone came in to share how awesome reading is with their kids just because she gets paid to have sex on camera is absolutely ridiculous.

1) Everything Lauren said, and 2) I straight-up don’t understand how your first thought on seeing this picture could be “Ewww, [hypocritical moral panic]!” and not “holy shit that is so cute I might actually die.”

Yeah, seriously, look at how excited the kids are.
And if you’re not ready to have awkward-making questions like “what’s an orgy” maybe you should be questioning your own damn parenting skills.

I think the way she responded to it all was perfect:“I believe education is a universal right. I committed to this program with the understanding that people would have their own opinions about what I have done, who I am and what I represent. I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am. I will not live in fear of it.”

That is indeed an awesome perfect response.

jhameia:

novazembla:

she-hulk-smash:

elizablr:

brianvan:

I consider myself a very open minded person, but if I had a kid and I found out after the fact that Sasha Grey had read books to his/her class, I’m not sure how I would process that. Perhaps I’d need some Chlorox surface wipes, at least.

Not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed that I had no idea who Sasha Grey is, but yeah - I didn’t. So I googl’d ‘er.

And yeah…I don’t think I would want the person reading stories to my kid to have won the following awards:

“Best Three Way Sex Scene”

“Best Group Scene” (They mean ‘orgy’, y’all)

“Best Oral Sex Scene”

Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with working in porn, I just wouldn’t want my daughter to come home talking about this ‘nice lady’ who read them books, only to later come to me asking, “what’s an orgy?”

Planning on saving that talk for 9th grade…

Assuming that sex workers are permanently dirty and always covered in jizz is not a sign of open minded thinking. And, if you truly thought that there was “nothing necessarily wrong” with working in the porn industry, you would have zero issue with this at all. At least be honest with your biases.

Sasha Grey didn’t waltz into that classroom wearing a shirt that says “I DO PORN. EVERYBODY LOOK IT UP.” It’s upsetting that people expect porn stars to sequester themselves away and not have lives outside of their work. They don’t spend all their time having sex, and a fair amount of them don’t parade around flaunting what they do for a living. Beyond that, Sasha was helping kids learn to read with Read Across America. She wasn’t reading them erotica or giving them a talk about the porn industry, she was doing charity work. Believe it or not, people who do porn have hearts just like everyone else. The audacity those parents have to be incensed that someone came in to share how awesome reading is with their kids just because she gets paid to have sex on camera is absolutely ridiculous.

1) Everything Lauren said, and 2) I straight-up don’t understand how your first thought on seeing this picture could be “Ewww, [hypocritical moral panic]!” and not “holy shit that is so cute I might actually die.”

Yeah, seriously, look at how excited the kids are.

And if you’re not ready to have awkward-making questions like “what’s an orgy” maybe you should be questioning your own damn parenting skills.

I think the way she responded to it all was perfect:
“I believe education is a universal right. I committed to this program with the understanding that people would have their own opinions about what I have done, who I am and what I represent. I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am. I will not live in fear of it.”