The Fourteen Words

No, not those fourteen. These fourteen: The sexual revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Nowhere is this disaster more luridly depicted than in today's women's magazines. A generation of J-school infiltrators have put regressive politics into the glossy, sickly-sweet pages. Cosmopolitan features an article entitled, How This College Student Became a Successful Porn Star Overnight.

Cosmopolitan magazine used to have cover stories like, "Take The Time To Learn Ten Ways To Please Your Man." Apparently they've scaled up, because now it's click-bait like, How This One Weird Trick Helps You Please Ten Men At A Time.

They interviewed a 25-year-old woman stage-named Carter Cruise, who has already been in 176 "adult films." She refers to this concept of "branding" herself.

"I came up with this idea to create this brand of "Carter Cruise" where I could do everything I wanted to do. I wanted to write, I wanted to act, I wanted to make music, I wanted to do fashion."

If you have done nearly two hundred "adult films," your brand is set in stone. You're a whore. Any man who meets you and is smart enough to do a reverse image search on you will run in the opposite direction.

According to Cruise, her "dad is the biggest feminist," and supports her. We'll have to take her word for it, I guess. He probably came to a crossroads and realized that he couldn't stop her, so his choice was between supporting her and losing her, and possibly his wife, too.

If "cuckold" is the pejorative for a man who "supports" his wife sleeping with other men, then, there should be a pejorative for a father like this. Piece of shit, probably. Whatever it is, it's a general unwillingness to protect his daughter.

While Cruise was growing up, her father introduced her to "women CEOs, writers [and] architects," in the hopes of enabling her empowerment. But somehow the message got lost, and she equates prostitution with empowerment.

Maybe she told her father that she's building a brand, like Kim Kardashian, or Paris Hilton. But they were already well-connected before they did their sex tapes, and they only did one. Not two hundred. Or maybe she's convinced herself that she will become the next Jenna Jameson, the so-called Queen Of Porn. Despite her "royal" status, Jameson hasn't accomplished anything outside the pornography industry.

Cruise's Wikipedia page lists her as "brand ambassador" to a gonzo production company known as Airerose Entertainment. What is "gonzo?" Gonzo is way out there. Simulated rape, double anal penetration, really the leading edge of cruelty and suffering. Hooray empowerment.

Cruise believes it was her father who raised her to "know that you don't need a man." Who raised her to think of pornography when it came time to make a "list of what I am good at?" Objectification by one man is a shameful disgrace but by one million men is an empowering statistic.