“Alternative” Porn – Suicide Girls and Barely Rotten Girls: Sexualizing violence, Embracing White Male Supremacy and Reinforcing Gender Roles

I have a rant so ignore my grammatical errors. As a radical, anti-exploitation feminist I simply cannot wrap my head around the fact that some women embrace the harm of other women. I always hear of a few women who love pretending that the porn industry or the fashion industry can be liberating or “cool”. I don’t understand it. A particular kind of porn seems to appeal to a lot of subcultures, this “alternative” porn bullshit.

This encompasses suicide girls and various other “underground” pornography set up by sadomasochism enthusiasts to exploit women the same, sexist way but adding tattoos and piercing to make it “alternative”.

Well, all that is different is the women are put in leather outfits and covered in cliché tattoos like pin up girls and stars. But wait! It’s UNDERGROUND so it’s cool! Wrong. First of all, it’s NOT underground or alternative in 2010 to have tattoos, if anyone has noticed; most people are pierced up and tattooed. I don’t see how this is “alternative” when the women are still portrayed as nymphomaniacs awaiting to please a man. I hear the most pitiful excuses from “alt porn” users, one that is common is “They are illustrating REAL women, real women with breasts and butts!” Well, maybe a few women are in their healthy weight zone when posing for suicide girls but it doesn’t really offer much besides basically thin white girls in lame outfits with tattoos portraying cartoonish women in bikinis.

Another thing I hear a lot of is that this “alt” porn is replacing or changing regular ole’ porn. Bullshit. Why? Because it’s no different, you slap on a few tattoos and that’s it! There are so many of these counter culture porno cliques floating around and some of them go as far as showcasing half-killed women. I mean, what’s sexier than a woman who is dead? I mean, Jesus Christ here people…are you serious?

A troubling example of a “company” that uses half-dead women for masturbation accessories is “Barely Rotten Girls”. This is true, is swear! They also call these women “pin ups”, which brings me to another point. Fuck this pinup bullshit. Why would you want to be a pinup? Why the aspiration lately? I know it’s part of the cheesy subculture but come on, do you really want some dude to put you on his wall so he can jack off to you all night? But I digress. On this site these douchebags (both men, of course) show photos of women with fake blood, slit necks and bruises but still make them pose with a sultry stare. It makes me want to scream “fuck you!” as loud as possible to the ear of everyone that jacks off to this shit. Oh but of course the cliché zombie bullshit defenders will claim this is all just so quirky and ironically in bad “horror” taste, right? People will say it’s artistic and somehow deep. Well, the truth is you can be artistic and all that jazz but when you make a website dedicated to exclusively showing photos of nearly slaughtered women (which they love to call “girls”) than you’re not an artist, you’re a fucking douche bag who makes money exploiting women and encouraging people to view violence as sexy.

I wish people would wake the fuck up and smell the java. I wish people would stop finding violence sexy and creating equally violent, sexist and degrading material for other douchebags to jack off to.

I’m done.