So, a couple of things have happened since I last posted. So, last week I wrote a post about the whole incident that happened in Ireland at an Eminem concert at Slane Castle. I didn’t really expect too much of a response since a lot of people were writing about the same thing but I was wrong. Somehow my blog got linked on a Flemish-language newspaper and my blog EXPLODED in Belgium. (Keep in mind the word exploded is entirely relative.) So I had my two best days ever in the history of my blog one right after the other. I even got some hits off of Twitter which basically never happens for the following two reasons. One, I am confused by Twitter as a general rule and two, I have like 51 followers. I had 52 but then someone unfollowed me. When you have basically no followers you notice the ebb and flow. Then this sad thing happened. I noticed that, after the HIT EXPLOSION my daily hits were slightly higher than normal and came from search terms instead of my blog followers clicking on their emails or my Facebook friends finding the link there. I then noticed that I was getting all sorts of hits from people looking for the image of the girl giving head at the concert. (If you don’t know what I am talking about, just read the aforementioned blog, it will fill you in.) So, okay, I have a few things to say about this.
First of all, seriously people, I don’t understand what is so damn exciting about a photograph of a girl sucking a guy’s dick. If you really want to see what sucking a dick looks like, go suck a dick. Set up a camera on the other side of the room and have it take a photo of you in the middle. Put a stupid lime green hat on the person on the receiving end of the oral gratification, have that person throw his hands up into the air and basically you have the photo. Not that exciting, really.
Secondly, if you really insist on seeing the photo, which makes me think less of your value as a human being because neither the girl nor the guy featured in the photo gave their consent, why don’t you try searching Google images? You know what Google images is? A way to find images. You know what a photograph is? An image.
Thirdly, porn. It exists and it is everywhere. The beauty of porn is that if you are turned on by people that look as though they are not consenting of the photograph being taken or the film being filmed, you can find that only the people actually have consented. Acting, you know? So you get the best of both worlds. You get to view people engaged in sexual acts that maybe look like they are not participating willingly or as though they don’t know they are being photographed/filmed, but you are not being a horrible creatch and reinforcing all the fucked up gender stereotypes that run so rampant throughout our culture.
Fourth, think about what your desire to look at this photograph means and start asking yourself tough questions. Do you think she deserved all the negative attention she is getting? Why? Would you feel the same way if the roles were reversed, if it was a man pleasuring a woman? Would she still be the slut?
Fifth, I hope you read my blog when you accidentally got there. I hope you read it and starting thinking about your role in the world. And I hope you know that I think you are a complete asshole.
So another thing that happened is that I received an email from my friend Debbie complete with a screen shot that demonstrated the fact that my blog has been banned by the company for which she works. We think it is because I wrote a post about going to a male strip club and that, throughout that post, I used the word “penis,” both in the singular and the plural, very liberally. On the one hand, I sort of feel as though you haven’t really made it until you’ve blown up via Flemish newspaper and been banned in a couple of offices. On the other hand, I use the word “vagina” ALL THE TIME. The word vagina is even in the title of one of my categories. And yet it wasn’t until I used the word penis that my blog got banned. So, that’s fucked up.
And finally, today I received a comment on my blog that said the following thing:
“Read on twitter you do a bit of bartending, would you be interested in us customizing your own bottle openers? We have a free promotion going on right now, send an email!”
My very own FranklyRebekah bottle openers. I never thought I would live to see the day.
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