I know this isn’t a comic book, but I’m going to do a review of this because after finishing it, I thought, why can’t this be a comic book?
More specifically, my question to myself was, why don’t comic book writers write comics like this? Why don’t they have these kinds of insights? Instead comic book writers are all writing stupid ass bullshit about how RACISM IS BAD, WAR IS BAD, VIOLENCE IS BAD, and they take the rioters side in any riot. They swallow the mainstream media kool aid. They believe what they’re told.
Jim Goad does not believe what he’s told, he investigates, something that writers should do, but most don’t. There’s really no trick to Jim Goad, he’s just a guy who addresses uncomfortable subjects. Maybe for fun, maybe out of compulsion, maybe just for money(!!!!!!!!! JEWWWWWWWW) but whatever the reason, he does it.
It gets him a lot of fans. Some of those fans are complete fucking nutcases who should be ground up into dogfood. In this extremely short book (maybe 100 pages or something? it felt like only 100 pages anyway) he digs through a handful of people who were obsessed with him, and picks apart their individual neuroses and symptoms.
Experience has taught me that when someone calls you the genius of your generation, you should immediately cut off all contact with them and move to another continent.
It usually starts with that kind of clue, where someone tells Jim Goad he’s a brilliant genius voice of whoever’s generation. Jim doesn’t love them back, and it appears they turn on him, though what’s really happening is that they reveal their inner psychotic that was hidden the whole time, and what follows from the mentally ill person is a flood of emails and letters and phone calls, to him or anyone involved in his life, people on message boards, people on facebook groups, whatever they can manage. Goad attempts to cut off contact with them, which does little to stem the insanity for a while, though at some point it seems to fade away, at least for a while. Most of these psycho stalkers disappear for a period of months or years before springing up again. Most of them blame some sort of medication or body disease. Some of them come right out and admit they’re psychotic, and yet even with this, they manage to force Jim Goad to get into trouble, mostly because of his history of beating up his girlfriend (out of self defense, and if there was ever a girl that deserved a punch it would be that one) who also happened to be one of his first psycho stalkers.
He also discusses a very important life lesson: when he got out of prison for beating up his girlfriend, he never had so much pussy thrown at him. This seems to affirm any theories or even evidence about a woman’s attraction to males with “the dark triad traits,” which is something you can go look up if you want to understand behavior of the modern American woman.
It took over a half-century of being alive to realize I can’t make dumb people smart and I’ll never be able to make annoying people likable. When I’m on my deathbed, I doubt I’ll fret that I didn’t spend enough time engaged in flame wars. I’ve adopted a Zen approach to it all.
I’ll let my writing speak for itself, and if people don’t understand it, that’s no longer my problem.
There is also a heavy undercurrent of other people’s willful ignorance, of course most especially by these mentally ill stalker types, although strangely enough there are a lot of people who are not clinically mentally ill who are still guilty of this kind of behavior practiced by psychos. This isn’t gotten into within the book, the book is just a short collection of specific psychos, but it’s a necessity to anyone who wants to understand the world around them (which SHOULD BE every fucking person alive, but most especially writers) and it should trigger a lot of vital thoughts on the nature of society. At the very least, it will make you more aware of the type of people who are harmful to be around. They’re usually the ones who are pointing all the fingers for every little reason and screeching bloody murder over things that don’t involve them, especially the unimportant things (like wife beating haha).
Again, why don’t comic book writers write shit like this? And don’t just say “because comic books are for faggot loser nerds with the emotional maturity of children” because we already know that, and it doesn’t mean that somebody still couldn’t do it.
Aside from me of course, but you know me, I don’t like to puff myself up too much. ^_^
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The whole rape thing: my thoughts
I will not comment much on james deen. I’ve worked with him, seen him on sets and at events, always liked him, but I don’t really know the guy. He’s not my friend he’s a coworker that I simply enjoyed working with.
But something has to be said for the girls that accused him of wrong doing on set. This is a sensitive issue that I will ramble on about for quite some time but here’s the thing:
In my personal experience, rape on a set does not happen. I have done scenes that became too much for me or where things that I hadn’t approved were attempted. I stopped them in the middle of the scene, said no, I don’t like this, stop. On rare occasions I’ve had to be very firm with companies or directors on my limits. They’ll try to change the no to a yes, but no is still no.
This whole thing with james Deen has brought a lot of girls forward that say they feel like they can’t say no or can’t have certain people on their no list. Yet we girls are just as responsible for not saying no as anyone who makes us feel like we can’t say no.
It’s very true that some companies will grumble and complain if you don’t do something they want you to do. Also happening fairly frequently is, if you complain or stop the scene, they’ll never hire you again. But the harsh truth is porn is really just a business and we are products. Porn isn’t going to hire you if you’re not sexy. An anal company isn’t going to hire you if you don’t do anal, bdsm is not going to hire you if you don’t do rough scenes. And they are always going to try and push for extremes. Of course they are, it sells more. But it is a performers responsibility to express and stand by our own personal limits. And not let the corruption of money and business swallow everything up. Porn is meant to be safe and fun and we have to fight to make it that way.
Because any time there’s money involved simple and innocent things can be corrupted. And I still regard porn as being innocent, people like sex, porn performers enjoy making it and porn watchers enjoy watching it.
I’m not saying that rape in porn couldn’t happen or doesn’t happen. I’ve just never seen or experienced it. Porn is a legal business under public eye, so porn companies are afraid of jail and bad press. Most of them won’t go near the possibility of a rape charge.
Yes, in porn there is a lot of pressure to please. There are thousands of beautiful girls waiting in the wings to do what you will not. It’s cutthroat. But girls are afraid to say no because of the other girls that are afraid to say no. And I for one am tired of the whining and complaining about the system when the problem really starts with us choosing dollars over ourselves.
We are not little girls anymore. Every girl in legal porn in the United States is at least eighteen. We’re not children that can be preyed upon and manipulated. We are women and we are the sole reason ninety percent of people watch porn. We have the most control. Being afraid to say no is on us. We need to take responsibility for that and say no when we want to say no.
As women, dealing with the demand for sex can be really hard, I will admit. Long before porn I’d had guys try to manipulate, blackmail, guilt trip, every which way you can think of, to stop me from saying no. I’ve lost friendships and jobs over saying no. I’ve cried over the backlash of saying no. But the right to say no has never in my life been taken away from me. And we as girls need to stop treating the fear of saying no as the inability to say no.
Lastly, I will clarify. In relation to james Deen I’m not saying anyone lied about anything. I have no idea if they did or not. I like james Deen but I also like many of the girls that accused him. I will not take sides. But I am tired of hearing that girls are afraid to even put a guy on their no list because it will cost them jobs. Of course it will cost jobs, there’s not very many well respected male performers and there’s a ton of girls. That’s the nature of this business right now. It does not mean you have no right to say no. It means you’d rather do things you don’t want to do to keep jobs. Many news articles are treating it like it makes us such poor tortured victims and it really doesn’t.
It’s true that a very large percentage of people, the largest of that percentage being the women, get into porn because they have bills they desperately need to pay. But that is what has created our entire problem, girls that won’t say no because they need the paycheck. We can’t use that as an excuse anymore or the limits will just keeping being stretched. If you don’t want to do something, say you don’t want to do it.
New girls I have a bit of sympathy for. They get it in sometimes with bad agents who throw them to the wolves. People that know the girls are new and take advantage of it. Those are girls that usually disappear from porn. So yes there is something to be said for porn companies also to be held accountable but for the girls that are vets in this industry, come on! We know how this works and we sure as hell know how to tell people to fuck off when they’re being disrespectful or asking for too much.
Now with all that being said I’m only talking about saying no, I’m not talking about what happens if that no is ignored. That’s an entirely separate discussion.
Okay, I vented, I’ll shut up now.