Pippa has strong thoughts on porn. I think folks try so hard to find the one or two porn movies that might not be SO bad, is that porn is seen as a male prerogative. People don't fight that hard to say that some chick lit is feminist or that one issue of Cosmo really had a really redeeming article, so women's mags are OK. I think it's less scary to talk about how sexist women's media are because it's not attacking men, which is seen as scary and taboo. Most porn isn't made for women, and there seems to be a perverse tokenism going on- where any attempt to make porn that is less than horrifically sexist is near immediately co opted in an attempt to make the whole OK. It's like saying Daughters of the Dust makes Norbit OK. And that's actually a pretty good connection there! Because millions will see Norbit or Big Booty Ghetto Hoes, but maybe a few thousand have seen Daughters of the Dust or Nonsexist Lesbian Erotica. Even non watchers get exposed to Norbit(by ads) or Big Booty Ghetto Hoes(the Internet is for porn), but very few people have even heard of Daughters of the Dust or Nonsexist Lesbian erotica, and those who do might be able to name drop it, but haven't even seen it.

Also, Brownfemi rises again. America is apparently threatened by imperialism. The porn part is longer than the other part, because I have never seen a military base. I feel the threads unraveling, and I see the wreckage of people's lives on tv, and out in the city, when people are talking, but it's the slow movement of a sunken ship out to sea, and I can't find the words.