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.
Egh, yeah, google tends to ‘helpfully’ show some image results in with their regular web search. It’s why I warned against doing that. Sorry you got freaked out. v.v
But you’re not alone, at least.
That cat looks like a lion, and I suspect if zie ever really loses patience, that dog is going to be a gazelle – dinner!
ROFL! I <3 this.
@catalpa
I’m better now. Distraction is helpful 🙂
@pallygirl
http://i.imgur.com/t0Zv8c4.jpg
I second the Pervocracy review of 50 shades, it’s fantastic. Also mildly disappointed the video content isn’t discussed more in these comments, because that’s the only way I’m willing to find out about it! 🙂
sarahkreece–the problem is nobody else is willing to watch the videos either. Someone needs to take one for the team.
It will not be me.
Nor me! I don’t want to watch or listen to that twerp when he’s clothed, never mind when he’s nekkid.
Ooh, I feel the same way about things with holes in them (or things with bumps on them). So gross and creepy. Reminiscent of skin diseases.
I enjoy reading “re-craps” of 50 Shades, but as for videos? Nope, I’d rather watch a zombie show.
tryphophobia
This might explain my fascinated horror with a photo on a film review of a woman with nuts and rivets covering half her face. Not a phobic reaction, but, yeah, horrified fascination, fascinated disgust.
I really want to meet a porn historian now.
I could not be bothered to watch the whole thing, just like everything else JordanOwen does, but I have seen bits and pieces here and there and I’m noticing this recurring pattern in his videos where he seems really paranoid and thinks feminists want to take his porn away. He certainly said something like that in one of his Sarkeesian videos, too (the one on the latest Tropes vs Women episode that was longer than fucking Transformers 4).
While I certainly disagree with banning porn or whatever, this video seems to be another piece in the deranged puzzle that is JordanOwen42 psyche. There’s a time and place for everything but apparently he wants everything to be pornographic, everywhere, all the time and the mere thought of a video game that doesn’t sexualize and objectify women terrifies him even though he shouldn’t because if it’s porn he wants, he should just watch porn. Why does he feel like mainstream media like video games owes him a boner?
Also, about the bathtub thing, he also seems to have a habit of filming things at really awkward moments. He once made a video about Bob “Moviebob” Chipman… while being sick and probably half-naked under his bet sheets. Apparently he can’t just wait for a more appropriate moment when filming his paranoid rants. 😛
@Bernado: I’ve not located any qualifications for him that show he has training in history. The fact that he was an actor in the industry may mean he has a particular viewpoint as well.
Surely if you’re going to be a porn historian, you’d need to have a fairly narrow focus, like naughty etchings in the 19thC or something. A historian of modern porn would be pretty boring IMO.
@pallygirl
That was meant more as a joke. A friend of mine has worked extensively on the history of sexuality, and there are some interesting histories of the sex industry. But I doubt any author would refer to himself as “pornography historian.”
Also, being a classically trained historian and working in academia myself, I want to emphasize that there are a lot of “amateur historians” who have contributed significantly to the field, sometimes being far ahead of the academe. Not, to my knowledge, in the field of porn history though…
*him- or herself, of course.
Out of curiosity I watched part of the video and a different video by owen, where he’s also ranting about dines… halfway through the video his cat knocks over his camera and from then on the video is all blurry for ten minutes or so. he obviously doesn’t care and just rants on. after a while there’s a cut and from then on the camera’s focus works but… he also took his shirt off in the meantime? o.O uhm… wtf?
also, I don’t like that this guy has a cat. I like cats and men who care for animals. he shouldn’t have one.
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/006/4/7/my_frightened_cat_by_nema1n-d36kmny.jpg
Yay I’m not alone in my trypophobia!
Lotus pods, man. *shudder*
The infamous “lotusboob” Photoshop would induce trypophobia in anyone.
Ooh, while people are talking about phobias – I know a guy with a gluten intolerance, and his girlfriend was an emetophobe (afraid of vomiting), and sometimes he would eat an entire cake just to to trigger her by violently regurgitating it later (and because he would get pissed off at friends taunting him with delicious cake he can’t eat). Needless to say, their relationship did not last very long.
Part of me almost hopes these guys never go away, they’re the best laughs I’ve had in years. No satirist in the world could top them.
“Seriously? He thinks anyone with a particular sexual interest wants to just sit and watch?
ROFLMAO omg what a loser, seriously” – kittehserf
I have wondered if, for all his talk about sex, Jordan Owen has ever actually had any. Not that there’s anything wrong with that (I haven’t either) but his pornography fixation and obsessions with sex feel like they come from someone with no experience on the subject. Maybe the guy just needs to hire an escort.
If we’re still up for Fifty Shades breakdowns, there’s a stunningly good one here (they’re about 2 1/2 books through so far): http://das-sporking.livejournal.com/242338.html
Bring a stiff drink though, after every chapter I feel like this:
http://nbchardballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/rust_cohle.jpg
Trypophobia is something I have that I didn’t know had a name. Remember the PBS add for Nature that showed baby frogs hatching out of the daddy frog?
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Kellier Gator:
Honestly, I’m just waiting for Owen to be exposed as the greatest performance artist of all time.
@Irene, sorry about your kitty. I lost my Kublai to kidney failure when he was only six. I really hope your little guy pulls through, sending loads of good vibes!
Rubber ducky your the one,
you make misogyny so much fun.