When we talk about the “Hegelian triad,” the first thing to do is to forget the story about alienation, loss of the original organic unity, and the return to a “higher” mediated unity. To get a more appropriate idea of it, it is worth recalling the sublime reversal found, among others, in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. When, at his birth, Pip is designated a “man of great expectations,” everybody perceives this as a forecast of his worldly success; at the end, however, when he abandons London’s false glamour and returns to his modest childhood community, we become aware that he did live up to the forecast that marked his life - only by finding the strength to leave the vain thrill of London’s high society behind does he authenticate the notion of being a “man of great expectations.” We are dealing here with a kind of Hegelian reflexivity: what changes in the course of the hero’s ordeal is not only his character, but also the very ethical standard by which we measure his character. And did not something of the same order happen at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, when Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame with the torch held by a hand shaking violently on account of his severe illness - when the journalists claimed that, in doing this, he truly was “The Greatest” (a reference to Ali’s boastful self-designation decades ago, the title of the film about himself in which he starred, and of his autobiography), they, of course, wanted to emphasize that Muhammad Ali has achieved true greatness now, through his dignified endurance of his debilitating illness, not when he was enjoying the full adulation of popularity and smashing his opponents in the ring. … This is what “negation of negation” is: the shift of perspective which turns failure into true success.
— Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View
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You know you lived in LA in the 90s when….. Angelyne!
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I consider myself a very open minded person, but if I had a kid and I found out after the fact that Sasha Grey had read books to his/her class, I’m not sure how I would process that. Perhaps I’d need some Chlorox surface wipes, at least.
Not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed that I had no idea who Sasha Grey is, but yeah - I didn’t. So I googl’d ‘er.
And yeah…I don’t think I would want the person reading stories to my kid to have won the following awards:
- “Best Three Way Sex Scene”
- “Best Group Scene” (They mean ‘orgy’, y’all)
- “Best Oral Sex Scene”
Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with working in porn, I just wouldn’t want my daughter to come home talking about this ‘nice lady’ who read them books, only to later come to me asking, “what’s an orgy?”
Planning on saving that talk for 9th grade…
Wait… did she read them books about orgies? How would the kids know she worked in porn? What 1st grader is going to google some random person who read to them for 20 minutes? And what’s with the colorox comment? So because she’s a porn star she leaves a trail of STDs where ever she goes?
that “open minded person” disclaimer basically means you aren’t about shit but moralizing and making yourself feel superior over sasha grey and anyone else who’s a sexworker.
try again, asshole.
why don’t YOU go read to some first graders? shit.
Oh come on people. Working in porn doesn’t mean you would discuss your work with children. Besides being a teacher myself and having spent the last year and a half with teachers to be, I know many of them may not have “Best oral sex scene” awards hanging on the wall but doesn’t mean they don’t do plenty of shit when they get home you wouldn’t want them talking about with your kids. I mean at least 10 teachers I know still bar tend after school—don’t see too many folks worried about mixology getting taught in classes or needing chlorox wipes for that.
If by “open minded” you mean you’re a person with myopic, ill informed, and ridiculous views I would have to agree. Seriously though, how this is a problem if she’s appropriately dressed and just reading to them? If she were fucking a man in a bear suit (yeah, that happened and I loved it) or showing them how to safely slap each other that’d be another thing but as far as I’m concerned she’s done nothing wrong aside from letting the children choose the book when she should’ve just read Dr. Seuss.
P.S. I’d reevaluate that Clorox wipe comment because
A) Even if she did have something she picked up on set Clorox wouldn’t kill it.
B) “Chlorox” (Chloroxylenol) is a mild skin irritant and usually used for cleaning Algae and Fungi.
C) The type of Sex Work she does (ya know that whole legal, big studio, bound to health codes sex work that actors have been fighting for for YEARS) simply isn’t half as dirty as people think it is. Honestly, Sasha’s probably been tested more vigorously than the last 5 people most of us slept with combined.
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