Pornstar Sasha Grey reads to primary school children.

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You just can't make this shit up!! I wonder how the school introduced her to the children. link: www.laweekly.com/informer/2011/11/11/sasha-grey-reads-to-compton-kids-failing-school-district-embarrasses-itself-again

The worlds gone mad - and porn is very much mainstream.

A woman reading to children in a classroom is not normalising porn. This has already been covered as well.

I just despair that some people are so busy promoting women's rights that they fail to see that they're really only promoting "certain" women's rights. You know, those they APPROVE of. How utterly sad and closed minded.

Carry on with your hate campaign. Your fear that she will somehow "infect" the children by reading a child's book. This is just the kind of thinking that sets women's right back years - putting women in little categories - "good girl" and "bad girl" and then forever treating them accordingly. Instead of recognising that we're all individuals, we all make mistakes, make bad choices occasionally, all have different aspects of our lives that other people don't know about. Instead of recognising that she is focusing on something positive, instilling a love of reading in children, you choose to focus on the negative.

I wouldn't have a problem in the world if this woman came and read at my dcs' schools. But then, most of the parents that I know at their schools are not of the "pearl clutching" ilk. They're more measured and realistic, as well as displaying a fair bit of common sense. Thank goodness.

Yet more lazy religious tropes. Yawn.

Yep such a hate campaign going on preferring children to have positive role models that do not promote hardcore porn (which she did at the time) come and read to them with the celeb tag and all that goes with it attached to them

I think we will have to agree to disagree on this. I quite frankly am not interested in discussing this further with people who are fanatical and rigid in their hatred of anything they do not personally approve of. The world's a great big place out there, and you seem to expend an awful lot of energy trying to put people (women, specifically) in their place, based on your perception of their worth that you've assessed from afar. Ironic, when you consider it's on a women's rights board. Personally, I have better things to do.

Sorry, MEOD, x-post. That was for previous posters.

Well I am not going to sit back while someone tells me I am full of hate towards women am I

Ridiculous the drama on this thread

Quite agree Freudian it's ridiculous.

You see it all the time on discussions of porn and prostitution. There's a ridiculous acronym being bandied about on twitter - SWERF (derivative of TERF) and throwing accusations of "whorephobia" against anyone who speaks against prostitution, including women who are survivors of prostitution! Same thing happens with porn, as seen here. I don't see any feminists posting here to say they hate Sasha Grey or trying to put her down or "in her place". Apparently saying someone is not a good role model or shouldn't be endorsed as a role model by schools is being fanatical and rigid in hatred. Or something.

Florafox, your posts on this thread have been fantastic.

I am basing that view on the assumption that she is there as a member of the community though. I have said this over and over. But she's not a member of the Compton community. She was not raised there, and she does not live there. She was billed to the children as a celebrity (a TV actress) and anyone who thinks that 9 year olds aren't excited about finding out who the celebrity who was in their classroom is dreaming. I live in LA and comments about kids not being bothered about celebrities because they trip over them every day are daft. Compton is an extremely deprived area, south of the city, and the only reason a celebrity would step foot there is for this sort of work.

nypost.com/2011/11/15/california-school-says-sasha-grey-was-invited-to-read-as-entourage-star-not-porn-star/

Thanks rooty.

And her role in Entourage was as a character called "Sasha Grey" who was... a porn performer. She played a version of herself, which is a thing on Entourage. I wouldn't be surprised if the school didn't realise this although Entourage isn't exactly children's entertainment so they should have done some checking (or googling) before accepting her.

Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist. It only makes sense in twitter land. No, actually it doesn't make sense there either.

lol @ poem career

trying to think of another thing for swerf

starting with

sensible women......
sensible women earnestly rebuff fuckwittery?

I love that seven

Your phone is highbrow Empire

Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist. It only makes sense in twitter land. No, actually it doesn't make sense there either.

The few minutes of Entourage that I've seen were vile misogynist shite as well, since we're all here scoring feminism points. I wouldn't want Jeremy Piven or Mark Wahlberg in a classroom with my child, because they are full of revolting gendered nonsense.

On the other hand, I wouldn't want Sasha Grey in a classroom with my pre teen child, because I would have to lie about who she was, and I couldn't answer their questions about her violent pornography.

Have the people here vigorously defending this watched a Sasha Grey porn film? I have, well, the few moments of it I could stomach, I looked it up after the interview with her that I mentioned early in the thread. Because noone has offered a satisfactory answer to the possibility that these kids would see or read about this, other than kids not having unsupervised access to the internet, which is all well and good but just not reality.

Goodness me - what was she reading to these children to spark such outrage, 50 shades of grey?!

Maybe RTFT?

Yet again, FF posts with sense and compassion about a difficult subject and gets leapt upon.

This happened in 2011, when SG was still promoting her career in extremely nasty porn (and there really aren't words big enough to describe how nasty it was either) and telling people how empowerful it was for her and she was in no way coerced or nuffink. She is now, I assume, telling the truth.

It does change things that she isn't part of the local community and that she travelled there and was introduced as a 'celebrity', the children are going to be curious about what kind of celebrity she is, and sadly, when they Google her, they will either come up against parental controls filters we hope or they will be faced with some really vile scenes from her films.

I get what people are saying about how her past shouldn't marr her future, and I agree, but in the case of going into school to read to young children, which will attract publicity for the school, and to be honest, what kind of school really wants that kind of publicity, what kind of school would want to be linked forever with the kind of 'filmed rape' porn she produced?

I think her motives may well have been pure with a touch of publicity hunting but I also think that she would be better to more behind the scenes for a while, until the first things that come up on a search aren't her having her holes ripped apart.

Compassion? Funny.

Yes, seems an odd choice. But you can't be compassionate and absolute at the same time. Grey clearly thinks porn is not vile and nasty. Her opinion. Has she that right? Who are you to deny her that right? Who are you to then deny her contact with children. But...

Yes, still seems an odd choice.

Personally, I have better things to do

This is and always will be my absolute hands down favourite style of flounce. "I admit defeat" dressed up as "You're all so dumb!"

Fuckin' see ya mate!