Comments on: Suicide Girls is owned by a right winger who treats women like shit. Or: why I don’t link to them

By: R

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:27:15 +0000

Old topic I know, but just now stumbled across it and felt like commenting …

I was living in PDX back when SG was born, living in the same building as the owners in fact, so met many of the originial models for the site. In the begining it was exactly what it tries to represent itself as — psudo-feminist pron, featuring quite a few of the punk girls you’d see around town working at various coffee shops or places like Red Light ( clothing store ) …

But like all good things that generate a profit, it was quickly snatched up, changed ownership, though attempts to keep the facade of Missy as the figurehead. Now it’s just another dumping ground for pron of any naked girl with tattoos or piercings .. just look at the listing of models on the site and you won’t see PDX as being anyone’s ‘location’ — the original models are all listed as ‘location :unknown’ as it seems the site itself is somehow trying to distance itself from it’s humble beginings in a PDX apartment building.

By: Fell

Fell — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:42:46 +0000

Yeah I agree with Channel Null, funny place for this come up. But interesting, thanks for posting it.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:54:31 +0000

It is impossible to disentangle sexuality and politics. I wish it were otherwise since I live in a country that calls itself the Land of the Free that won’t let me marry my partner. Won’t let my partner relocate to the US.

And would happily crush this site and some of my own in the interests of the fundagelical political agenda.

Richard

By: channel null

channel null — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:36:29 +0000

This is the strangest place for a political debate… There a girls having sex with robots here, and paintings of amputee porn. Anyway, I think Doug Rushkoff put it best: Let My People Go. Of course, that’s just some ultra-leftist polemic, it could never happen, right? Or is it a poverty of imagination and logick on your part?

“There is nothing so rich that it cannot stand constant enrichment.”

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:14:17 +0000

Al - I don’t think it would be ridiculous for someone who disagreed with my politics to boycott my site. And it wasn’t just the difference of political opinion anyway… when I first read that Suhl was a neocon I didn’t take my SG link from Technoccult down. It was the vitrole on the SG blog that eventually made me take it down. AWolf, who runs Now Tease Me and Nude Chaos, has pretty different political views from me, but I still link to his site.

I know the link I included isn’t particularly damning, but it was the only thing I could find. But even in that link, he didn’t just say that Islamic culture needs to be modernized, he lumped all Arabic people together and said they were all “fucked up.”

Thanks for the AFF link… I’d been thinking about dropping them for a while now because their business does seem questionable. Will do more research.

By: al benk

al benk — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:59:33 +0000

Oh, by the way, I notice you link to AFF. While you are on your morality kick, you might read…
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff117706.htm

And by the way, all of those cute girls in the AFF banner ad are fakes. If you log on to AFF and do a search on any of the women in the banner ads, they all come up with ‘Sorry, this member has removed his/her profile.’ Talk about sleeze.

By: al benk

al benk — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:43:17 +0000

I have no idea whether the women are treated worse than other sites, but your argument about not linking to the site because the owner is a “right wing conservative white male” is about as ridiculous as someone not linking to you because you are a pro-palestinian liberal (or whatever you want to describe yourself).

As to being violently anti-palestinian, you picked a poor blog post to make your point. His April 2004 post arguing that the Arab world needs to modernize and improve their human rights policies is not exactly an anti-palestinian rant.

And isn’t it a little odd to be worrying about offending the Arab world, a highly misogynistic region where there are few rights and no legal porn?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:42:13 +0000

It was no more than a week ago I saw yet a new article describing SG.com as feminism with tits. I’m sure many of the women would rather be elsewhere but SG’s success isn’t easily duplicated. All those inbound links give them Google page rank.

It is funny that AdBrite is running one of those stupid ‘overmasturbation’ ads here. Hope noboby clicks on it.

Not that I’m criticising you about that. I remember my shock when Google AdSense started advertising gay “cures” on one of my sites.