This somewhat alarming video was recently posted in Reddit’s GamerGhazi subreddit. It features Sarkeesian Effect co-creator Jordan Owen explaining, at some length, his disagreements with antiporn feminist Gail Dines over the book Fifty Shades of Grey. (Dines, you see, was Owen’s previous obsession, before he discovered Anita Sarkeesian; this video is a couple of years old.) Alas, the sound cuts out about halfway through the nearly hour-long video, so you won’t get to hear the whole thing.
You might also be slightly distracted by the fact that Owen delivers this lengthy critique while sitting naked in a bathtub.
There is not enough tequila and whiskey in the world to make me click that Play button….
@freemage
I’m with you. Some things were not meant to be glimpsed by mortal man or woman. The sound probably cut out because of the offenses to the gods it was recording.
“You might also be slightly distracted by the fact that Owen delivers this lengthy critique while sitting naked in a bathtub.”
Given that this video is almost two years old, I get the feeling our boy Owen has since graduated to Tobias Funke levels of bath-loathing:
http://karmajello.com/postcont/2013/09/sobbing-uncontrollably.gif
Why is he delivering this message from his bathtub? Do I want to know?
I’m certainly not watching it. If he wants women to watch him shout at them from his tub he’s going to have to find someone willing to accept payment for it, cause nobody is signing up for that shit for free.
Oh my fucking god. Not in Voltaire’s dreams did he ever imagine an opponent this ridiculous.
OMG. Brain melted at this, ranting from the bathtub? Really? I thought moping on the couch with belts was funny, but this! This!
I sort of thank you, David, for watching this on our behalf because there is no freakin’ way I am going to press play, but part of me is also haunted by now knowing that this video exists.
Nope! Not watching that mess, I will take your word for it.
Wow! I seriously laughed hard when I read this post! My Lucifer! Owen is beyond pathetic.
Not shown in the video: He’s actually bathing in belts.
I’m glad it wasn’t Aurini. I would have been compelled to watch to see if there were any skulls.
A skull would make a useful soap-holder, no? I wonder if he keeps up the LaVey cosplaying thing while he’s in the bath too/
First 10 minutes is half borrowed footage from some talkshow where Dines makes halfway spot-on criticisms on 50SOG. Owen responds from bathtub.
Dines: Something something porn doesn’t reflect the creativity in real human sexuality.
Owen: Does too! Rule 34!
Dines: Something on Christian’s sadism and how he has real world power over Ana.
Owen: Let me explain how BDSM ideally works.
Dines: Ana’s slave contract is supposed to regulate her entire life, not just sex!
Owen: If it were real slavery, she wouldn’t need to sign anything! some people just take kink seriously.
Dines: Something something Ana doesn’t really seem to like this kink thing.
Owen: How can you speak on behalf of fictional character? And who cares?
Dines: This book is marketed to teenage girls!
Owen: I thought it’s more like older ladies who buy this book.
And so on, I assume.
If he meant to pose sexy, he’s badly distracted by his argument with Dines.
Oh god. I made it to min 3:20. Gems so far include asking the rhetorical question “Really, Gail, is that what it’s come up to?” WHILE SITTING NAKED IN HIS BATH, actually filming his laptop screen instead of recording a video (yeah, 15 000 Dollar worth of equipment), and countering Gails distinction between sex and pornography with “I defy anyone out there to find any personal sexual interests that are not reflected in porn”. I had to stop there, for my own personal safety.
I’m just…speechless.
@puddleglum
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I haven’t even read the article yet, I just wanted to let you know my eyes are watering from laughing at that title and the still on the video. Is this real? This isn’t some sort of self-aware parody that’s trying to gradually push towards more and more absurdity in the desperate hope that eventually the joke will be found out?
No such luck, I imagine. Surely by now he’d think that he might be able to get his point across better by being slightly more concise – how long is that film of his going to be, if the teaser’s 7 minutes and the commentary on the teaser is half an hour? Should I bring provisions for the next couple of weeks into the cinema it’s absolutely going to get a release in?
He is not ok. Can anyone do a wellness check?
That rubber duckie is awesome! And I went to the site that makes them – OMG, the cuteness. I kinda want to collect Bud Ducks now.
The only skill they have mastered is pointing a cam at people and letting them talk and talk and talk. It seems like they’re spending $500 a month collecting interviews and $7500 a month at their favorite strip club, but they are getting interviews that they put in the teasers. At least there is going to be a finished product, unlike with most scams.
Still, you know when the time comes to edit all the raw footage into a movie, they’re both going to say “fuck it” and just release it as is. The Sarkeesian Effect is going to be 8 hours long, 4 hours of which is going to be interviews with strippers.*
*Which is still better than the commentary: 47 hours of Owen in the bathtub talking about how much he loves strippers.
This reminds me that there’s a really good chapter-by-chapter break down of 50 Shades of Grey over on Teen Skepchick:
http://teenskepchick.org/2014/08/06/50-shades-of-fail/
Sadly it doesn’t look like floatingmanatee has posted a new one in over two months. But I think she had initially planned on reviewing the whole thing before the film adaptation is released.
But there is enough masochism. BRING IT ON!!!!!
(after work)
Snark Squad completed all of 50 Shades and all of the sequels.
http://www.snarksquad.com/category/books-2/fifty-shades
So did Jenny Trout.
http://jennytrout.com/?page_id=5720
Really there’s no reason for anyone to have to read 50 Shades anymore.
ahahahaha
I haven’t watched the video, I can’t
I just can’t
But does he ever explain why he’s in the bathtub? Is he making a point? A sort of “take that, antiporn feminists!”? Right now it reminds me of Alex Jones filming one of his rants shirtless, to show how real and raw he was.
I can’t bring myself to watch.
Do. Not. Want.
My working theory is that he’s in the bathtub because he was bathing drunk and got the brilliant idea of doing this video, then just did it without thinking that maybe being drunk in a bathtub was not the correct context for the video.
I am not watching it because I don’t want this happy delusion shattered.
@Howlowl:
Jenny Trout also had a similar series. It’s much longer; one post per chapter, but it also has the other books in the series.
https://jennytrout.wordpress.com/jenny-reads-50-shades-of-grey/
I’ve read a couple people doing chapter-by-chapter breakdowns, and they all follow a pattern.
1. LOL, omg how is this… wut?
2. Ugh, there are some really problematic things.
3. I can’t believe this is happening right now.
4. Ah ha ha. ha. haaa….. …
5. No. No no fucking no. No!
6. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
This is a book that breaks people.