3 Cases of Crass Sexual Exploitation by Misogynist Internet Manipulators

[boston bean]

Technology has opened up the world so much—but it’s also provided another avenue for the most nefarious brand of misogynists. No, not the blustery commenters on your blog. Not even straight-up pornographers, the best of whom are straightforward about what they do. We’re talking about those creepy tech misogynists who masquerade under the guise of being cool, edgy and/or subversive by objectifying and shilling women’s naked bodies for their own mean-spirited ends.


1. Hunter Moore. Hunter Moore is infamous. The tattooed bro is the arbiter of “Is Anyone Up,” a “revenge porn” Web site he recently shut down in reaction to being investigated by the FBI. What’s revenge porn, you ask? Moore encouraged scorned youth to send the naked, often salacious photos their exes and rivals sexted them, so he could post them and they could enact vengeance. Not only were the naked photos not anonymous, they were accompanied by a screenshot of the nude’s Facebook page, identifying their full names, location and often, their place of employment. He also encouraged people to send in photos of themselves—which many did.

2. Joe Francis. Who can forget this guy’s particular brand of slithery exploitation? In the late ‘90s, just as Internet porn was establishing itself but had not yet supplanted the DVD industry, Joe Francis took his seedy show on the road, convincing barely (if even) legal, off-campus girls across America to show him their bare breasts. Targeting archetypically “wild” sorority-type spring break refuges, like Daytona Beach and New Orleans, Francis seemed to have a knack for finding the most inebriated, youngest-looking ladies to strip, and sometimes go back to his bus for more explicit sexual activity.

3. Sean Suhl. In 2001, Sean Suhl had one wish: to look at chicks naked. Not the regular types you see in pornos, though, with their silicon lips and Hollywood vibes, but women like the girls he knew in his then-hometown of Portland, Oregon. Punk women, women with tattoos and piercings, rockabilly women, goth women, otherwise unconventional women.

http://www.alternet.org/story/156190/3_cases_of_crass_sexual_exploitation_by_misogynist_internet_manipulators?page=2

[redqueen]

1. Uh oh, they said "misogynist"... I hope they're ready for the kneejerking, idiotic arguments.

So when people whose photos had been posted without permission wrote him to complain and take them down, he posted their emails and ridiculed them, having fostered a community on the site that if your nude shots ended up online, it was your own fault for sexting them in the first place. Yes, ladies and gentlemen: Hunter Moore managed to become both a pornographer and a slut-shamer! A feat of only the most despicable misogynists, and he made a reported $10,000 per month on advertising.

Like most of these fellows, Moore was never just an online misogynist. Last weekend in New York, he was arrested at an event he was DJing after he allegedly punched a go-go dancer in the face while she was trying to break up a fight (which started after Moore yelled “homophobic slurs”).

And people would probably line up to defend Suicide Girls in their ignorance of any of the facts, or their dismissal of the same. Just goes to show the most common problem faced in the fight against misogyny... the reflexive defense of the patriarchy, intolerance and abuse towards anyone daring to call it out, the absolute refusal to even think before spewing about it... and all those who extend so much energy on tortured pretzel logic to convince themselves and others that it doesn't exist, isn't all that bad, etc.

[seabeyond]

2. the reality is, a decade of dehumanizing girls/women to such an extent has become such a norm that

not even a wimper occurs.

why people do not get that this effects all of us, who we are as people, i do not know.

i saw a movie ad. sushi girl. criminal element, but a main focus of the movie is a naked woman on the table, with food put on her, for a bunch of en to eat off her..... in her totally non moving passivity, for the men to play. she is a table. not a person. a table. a thing. to eat off of. what new ways can our men come up with to dehumanize and denigrate women. what are women going to allow, hurting all of us, because they are desperate, addicted, have a fucked up life.

and THIS is our entertainment today.

rape, a table, bdsm.