A couple of days before our wedding I got an email from Susan Prior, the editor of Online Opinion, saying my post 'Porn is no one religion' had been voted one of the Best Blogs for 2007... I never knew that 'Best Blogs' existed, nor that we had been nominated and that voting had been going on (or I totally would have voted for myself...). So now it's been posted (sans porny pictures, and with 'P*rn', not 'Porn' in the title!) on OLO and when I retrieved the ten day old email from Susan letting me know the post was up from my hotmail junk folder*, Gam and I went and had a look. We were pleased (and somewhat surprised) to see that the comments were largely very intelligent and well-informed- only one or two nutbag anti-porn types in there.
One person thought I should have saved my breath- generally something to keep in mind for anyone annoyed by the crap that appears in the opinion pages, and something I tell myself every time I see a Miranda Devine column, but the difference in this case was that my criticisms of Adele Horin's article didn't arise in the context of a long history of annoyance at stuff she'd written. In general, I find Horin's writing inoffensive and unremarkable at worst, and quite enjoyable at best. I also get a bit annoyed at the occasional war on porn that the media feels the need to wage to get some hits- everyone loves to click on the articles that have a whiff of sex about them: one has only to look at the top 5 articles on the home page of the SMH or The Australian to know that- without having any reasoned views either against or in favour of porn. Porn is too easy to bash, and criticisms of it, however baseless, are too readily accepted.
So thanks to whoever nominated the piece, and I hope everyone (or at least the people worth pleasing) enjoyed it... or at least enjoyed the pictures :)
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* I'm always forgetting to check my junkmail folder, so if anyone emails me and I rudely don't reply, it's probably because Hotmail has picked it up and stashed it in junkmail, meaning my email won't pick it up. My apologies if this has ever happened, and if there's anything anyone needs me to respond to in a hurry it wouldn't hurt to let me know via the comments that you've sent an email!
3 comments:
Sweet! Well done!
Porn has always been an issue for me. Incidents from my childhood have very much clouded my judgement about it and sex in general. Great post. Has got me thinking. Which may or may not be a good thing, I'll let you know.
That's totally tits!
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