OK..let us pick up where we last left .
Violet Blue had just published a scathing column smacking down Adult Video News for their latest issue on “Black Humor” involving the stereotyping of Black men in interracial porn.
Well..it didn’t take long for AVN to issue a rebuttal…and they pulled even less punches than Violet did.
The response came from David Sullivan, a regular columnist at AVNOnline, and it spared no one in its condemnation and personal attacks…especially not Violet and her allies. Unfortunately, like the folks at TheSword.com. it also was marred with plenty of myopia and adhominens.
The entire “rebuttal” was posted by Violet to her Tiny Nibbles blog; I originally attempted to obtain the original editorial at AVN, but it seems to have been deleted. I will fisk as I go along.
Editorial: Self-Righteous, ‘Sex-Positive’ Violet Blue Can’t Get Her Facts Straight
02/12/2009
By David Sullivan
[category: NEWS]
SAN FRANCISCO – Did you know that former Blackzilla star Shane Diesel is actually a woman?
That’s just one of the things you’ll learn if you read the blathering of self-righteous sex columnist Violet Blue in today’s San Francisco Chronicle.
Quoting from the gay website The Sword, which in turn misquoted AVN’s February cover story about the interracial porn market, Blue didn’t bother to check her facts. So, according to Blue’s column, well-known male performer Shane Diesel is “the female star of My Daughter is Fucking a Nigga”.
Of course, if Sullivan had managed to do his own damn research, he’d have discovered that it was the folks at TheSword.com. not Violet Blue, that had mistaken Shane Diesel (the Black male porn starlet) for Shane (the gonzo porn mistress). But, why let the facts get in the way of a good beatdown of a “self-righteous” dirty liberal sex columnist, ehhh??
There’s no room for research on Violet Blue’s soapbox; this is, after all, THEE Violet Blue, who took a porn actress to court in order to protect her sacred nom de porn. Treading the PC party line, Violet is all for the empowerment of “sex workers” and free expression…unless that sex worker infringes on Violet’s own capitalist “brand” by associating her name with the sort of sexual speech she doesn’t like.
Ah, yes…break out the old “political correctness” line so useful for right-wingers who happen to be porn producers who want to defend right-wing things such as racial stereotyping. Does Sullivan wonder why porn doesn’t get support from otherwise progressive folk?? Maybe he should look at his own work.
And how very adult of Sullivan to reserrect that old case of Violet Blue, Sex Columnist ve. Violet Blue, Porn Starlet as a slam on Violet the Sex Columnist….never mind the fact that the case was ultimately resolved peacefully, that The Other Violet chose voluntarily to drop her claim to the name (she now calls herself “No Name Jane”), and that she has even made up with Violet since then. And get this…No Name Jane is on Violet’s side on this issue, too!!!
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves..the fun is just beginning.
But this isn’t about Violet’s litigious bullying of a porn chick. It’s about the Plight of the Modern Negro.
Listen up, Porn Incorporated: Violet Blue is tired of your race-baiting tropes and tricks! She’s had it with the horrors of the racist patriarchy, and her pale, delicate white skin is burning red with rage!
Such “disturbing” titles as Chatsworth Pictures’ Oh No! There’s a Negro in My Mom! are keeping women like Shane Diesel down, Violet says, and the sell-outs at AVN are promoting the oppression by pointing out that such videos sell even during a recession…and framing a discussion of the market trend as funny.
Titled “Black Humor”, the AVN story examined the popularity of videos that combine big black dicks and little white chicks. Editor Nelson X spoke to performers and producers (both black and white), questioning whether the use of stereotypes is acceptable for the sake of marketing.
“There’s something more than a little disingenuous about AVN’s sense of humor,” Violet wrote. “The positive ability of porn is that is [sic] can show partnering that is charged because it crosses racial boundaries. I believe that damage is not done by the FACT of crossing those taboos, but in the WAY those taboos are crossed.”
In short, don’t get your freak on in a manner that violates Violet Blue’s political sensibility. And STOP LAUGHING!
Oh, wow…such rage and anger. Too bad that it’s all wasted on nothing.
First off, Mr. Sullivan (and I do assume that you are White, since you don’t say otherwise), it really isn’t your call to talk about the “Plight of the Modern Negro” or hate on Violet for having an opinion about your industry’s practices. Last time I checked, the Constitution allowed for freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and that does include Violet’s right to criticize you and your industry.
Secondly, maybe the rage roids must have clouded your thinking a bit, Mr. Sullivan, because NOWHERE in Violet’s essay do I even detect a sliver of her saying that people should not buy interracial sex movies that pander to the typical stereotypes; nor does she go anywhere near saying that those who produce such material are innate racists….only that they might pander to racist sensibilities merely for the quick buck at the time of a recession.
And oh, BTW…did it ever occur to you that Violet is one of the GOOD GALS who actually defends the right of the adult sexual media to exist?? She’s definitely not Gail Dines or Bob Jensen or Nikki Craft or Donna Hughes. Why point all your guns at her for speaking her mind??? Unless, you’re simply a right-wing libertarian wanting to score brownie points with the Big Boys by slamming a feminist woman to the ground, maybe??
Violet believes that titles such as I Can’t Believe You Sucked A Negro! and My Daughter is Fucking Blackzilla push the wrong buttons, exploiting ugly myths and stereotypes about black male potency. Spreading racism like a porno pathogen, these movies bank on the insecurities of the Caucasian male and damage the sexual health of the viewer – because, Blue seems to think, the people who watch porn can’t make the high-brow distinction between reality and a stupid porn flick.
Welll….most can, but a few can’t…and the issue for Violet is NOT that interracial porn exists or should exists, but that there are much better and more sensual ways to promote the virtues of hot IR sex without the racist garbage. But…I guess that one woman’s garbage must be another mainstream man’s cash cow.
And, it’s not just Violet who’s concerned…several Black porn performers (from Ebony Ayes and Angel Kelly to Heather Hunter and Janet Jacme to Sinnamon Love and Lacey DuVille) have long since complained bitterly about the quality of roles that they are forced to play….and many Black male performers have responded by forming their own performing lines in protest. But, once again, since Violet’s White and progressive, they can smack her down as a dirty elitist feminist concern troll bitch…right???
Oh, but it gets better….Sullivan now decides the it’s not enough to smack down Violet, but that Madison Young should get her beatdown, too, for agreeing with her…and for biting the hand that feeds her.
Her tender, sex-positive heart inflamed by the AVN article she skimmed, Violet sought solace from a porn star who agrees with her agenda. You think porn actresses are bimbos? Well, sit down, Mister: some of us are ARTICULATE, EDUCATED, QUEER and SEX-POSITIVE!
“I find AVN’s comments on interracial porn to be highly offensive and serves [sic] as a discredit to the entire industry,” said Bay Area BDSM performer Madison Young, bonding with Violet in a “white girl-to-white girl” chat. “AVN is the leading trade magazine for the adult industry, and for them to make statements like ‘Negro Porn Recession-Proof’ gives the anti-porn community further fodder for their arguments as opposed to spotlighting sex-positive productions.”
Of course, ‘Negro Porn Recession-Proof’ is the headline from The Sword blog, and not a statement from AVN. But why split pubes over such details?
Some of US??? Now, if Sullivan had said that of, say, Nina Hartley, who is well known for being all of the things that Madison is being attacked for, and who has also been quite critical of Black porn portrayal stereotypes, then I’m guessing that Sully would have gotten his ass kicked royally…and that’s before they have to extracate Ernest Greene from his carcass. But Madison Young doesn’t have Nina’s years or pub…so I guess it’s open season for the establishment journal to bash on her for her political views.
And even if Madison did manage the same mistake of mistaking TheSword.com’s title for AVN’s, that no more devalues her opinion than mispelling Vicky Vette’s first name as “Vicki” disqualifies her Booble Girl of the Year award.
As bad as that was, it got much worse..then Sullivan got real personal regarding Madison’s political philosophy and the conflict between that and her real world roles:
“Porn is a widely consumed medium and can act as a powerful tool to educate, create connection and communication between couples, and archive our sexual culture while providing a reflection of our desires on film,” Madison recited. “This can be a positive and sexually validating experience for women and men and persons of all genders.”
We’ve seen that brochure, too. But thankfully, Madison is here to enlighten the ignorant; the model, activist and director goes on to reveal that she reluctantly performs scenes for “mainstream” porn producers in order to fund her Femina Potens art gallery in Frisco.
“I prefer to perform in productions that are sex-positive or queer-produced, but it takes a lot of anal scenes to run a feminist art space,” she said.
Surely, such a fiercely intelligent and empowered woman could earn the necessary bucks by finding a job that doesn’t involve taking it up the ass for some greaseball caveman producer in Van Nuys. But that’s not the point; Madison is here to Subvert From Within!
“I recall in one of the interracial films in which I was featured, I actually got the director to allow me to teach a bit of a tantric lesson in the scene,” she said.
Madison Young: changing the way you jerk off, one tantric lesson at a time. (Submit written/illustrated interpretations of Madison’s tantric lesson to racistsexistpigs@avn.com.)
Ha, ha, ha. Bwaaahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!! Yeah, way to cast light at her personal sexual tastes. You do know that there is a major subgenre of porn consumers who are into tantra…..right, Mr. Sullivan?? Not every consumer of porn happens to be a right-wing, redneck, cowboy-hat wearing yahoo with money pouring out of his ass, throwing money at sleazy titty bars and crusty badly lit porn shops, looking for the latest extreme gonzo extravaganza featuring Ava Devine and Bridgette Kerkove and Belladonna sharing a baseball bat up their collective asses and doing double anals and double vaginals with Mandingo and Jack Napier and other assorted “third leg” performers, concluded with bukkake facials from 20 men. There is an untapped resource in women and people of color who are discovering their own freaks and creating their own porn, and if the folks of AVN and the porn companies would just turn off their blinders and get off this “side show all freak all day” formula of showing sex, then maybe it may find the solution to getting through the recession. But, like the mainstream Hollywood industry that they would just love to copy, AVN is simply too stuck in the cookie cutter model to open their minds and their hearts…and if they keep attacking artists like Madison Young, they won’t be long for existence….not with South Florida and the Internet blowing up as alternatives to the San Fern Valley.
But enough whacking of Madison Young…lets go back to Violet Blue, since she’s apparently hasn’t been totally submitted yet. Like a bad reject of Max Hardcore, Sullivan then applies the proverbial dick to her metaphoric behind, without the pleasure of lube:
Violet Blue has a valid point about race-baiting porn titles – one which AVN addressed. If her knowledge of porn history 101 extended beyond the boundaries of Wikipedia, she might have pointed to the decade-old backlash against performer Jon Dough, who made the mistake of placing a tasteless Jew joke on one of his box covers. The First Amendment crusaders of Porn Valley suddenly developed an aversion to such humor, and the video box was swiftly recalled.
Blue might also have remembered the outcry over a mercifully short-lived trend of porn vids that combined hunting and animal killings with sex. The libertines of greater San Fernando didn’t much care for that “marketing trend,” either.
But Blue’s arguments are even more obvious than the cliches she targets in her ongoing, heavy-handed campaign against mainstream porn. (What else to expect from a woman who raved about Snuff, the crap-tastic literary flop from grossly overrated post-mod hack Chuck Palahniuk? Full disclosure: Palahniuk mentioned Blue by name in the book, a brutally stupid treatment of the Porn Valley gang-bang craze as metaphor for the American Wasteland.)
OK…and where, again, did Violet ever say that she wanted direct government censorship of porn she didn’t like?? If she did, it sure wasn’t in that column.
And as for the reference to the sex fictional novel Snuff…. well, if Sullivan wants to make one OSS column about a satirical novel about a mythical gangbang look like a political editorial against gangbangs…well, that’s Sullivan’s myopia, not Violet’s.
But Sullivan waits until the very end to go into the final flameout.
In the end, Blue herself is a walking, yapping, self-promoting stereotype of sorts, as director David Aaron Clark pointed out in an online response to her lawsuit against the porn actress of the same name.
Clark wrote in his post for LukeisBack.com: “The ‘author’ Violet Blue is the typical example of that San Francisco ’sex-positive’ counterculture faker who blathers on about the ‘community’ and their own highly evolved sexuality, how all us sexual outlaws have to look out for each other, but is really nothing but a self-promoting, narcissistic wannabe capitalist who, if you get in the way of their quest for power and prominence, will swiftly resort to the very sort of behavior they decry in others outside their ‘tribe.’
“The best part of it all is that ‘Violet Blue’ is not exactly a unique or original turn of the phrase in the first place.”
Oh, let me count the many funny ironies in those paragraphs:
1) The ‘Violet Blue v. Violet Blue” reset (see earlier)’
2) The fact that he quotes as an expert David freakin’ Aaron Clark….interesting because Clark was well known as one of the most extreme gonzo producers known to man, infamous for double anals and driving implements up women’s asses and other kinds of freakery…..until he got religion after the Darrin James/Lara Roxx HIV/AIDS scare of 2004, and thusly converted into the biggest advocate for mandatory condom sex known to mankind…even going as far as to using the porn tabloids to bash Nina Hartley, Ernest Greene and Dr. Sharon Mitchell of the AIM Medical Foundation, who pioneered the STD testing procedures used regularly in the industry, as the main causes of the outbreak. The same outbreak, BTW, that ended up only infecting 2 people publically. But, Clark is so much better to analyze the impact of racial stereotyping porn than Madison Young or Violet Blue ever could, because they have absolutely NO conflicts of interest whatsoever. For sure.
and 3) The fact that he uses the pages of Lukeisback.com…that’s Luke as in Luke Ford, the gossip columnist mostly known and self-described as a “right-wing Jew boy” who used his position to basically smack down the industry he made lots of money in…..as well as the performers who didn’t meet his standards of self-hatred and loathing.
Yeah…but it’s only Violet Blue who’s the “self-promoting, sadistic, wannabe capitalist”. And only those who challenge the mainstream porn industry’s near-sightedness in favor of a slightly more humane, more sensual, more progressive vision of explicit erotica, who are the ones to resort to hypocrisy.
If there is a place in the depths of Hell called “Porn Hypotwits”, David Sullivan has his own room booked and ready for him. Violet Blue and Madison Young should be the least of his or AVN’s worries.
If it wasn’t for Mark Kearnes, AVN would go right into the killfile for me. Let’s hope that he doesn’t lose his senses.
Addedum: Included in Violet’s reset of her column was a Twitter tweet she received from performer Sinnamon Love about one incident where Sinnamon dispatched an attempt to force her to play the racist stereotype:
@ violetblue I had a director ask me to eat watermelon and bug out my eyes in an interracial scene. I politely declined. No Step and Fetch it
Attagirl, Sinnamon….a few more rejections like that would be as lovely as you are.
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