Placing Blame in All the Wrong Places

Capturing mammary flashing women on film and video has landed Joe Francis, the founder of “Girls Gone Wild,” in the proverbial hot seat.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Garance Franke-Ruta labels Mr. Francis a “cultural pollutant,” and that may very well be, but he damn well is one entreprenerial cultural pollutant, who created a business entity which simply caters to those individuals, who for reasons far beyond my comprehension, get their jollies from watching girls, mostly drunken girls, flashing their more than a handful’s a waste, mammaries.

Francis’ current travails stem from a lawsuit filed by seven of these flashers who whine that “Girls Gone Wild” filmed them when they were flashing their breasts, on spring break, while underage.

I don’t know about you, but I find this absolutely ridiculous.  Seven girls are photographed, or videoed, in public, in all likelihood liquored up, flashing their breasts, probably well aware of the fact that myriads of cameras and videos of other spring break idiots are recording their stupidity, and their lack of judgment warrants a lawsuit against Joe Francis because he’s the individual who has profited the most from the seven girls’ foolishness.

Ms. Franke-Ruta moans,

...it can transform the playful exhibitionism of young women into scarlet letters that follow them around for life.

I say, it serves them right, and provides a valuable lesson for other young women who get drunk on spring break and are “playfully exhibiting,” though unfortunately few will learn the lesson.

Naturally, Ms. Franke-Ruta proposes that a new law should be implemented raising the age of consent to 21.  This would simply be a law to protect stupid people.

Franke-Ruta’s piece, titled Age of Innocence Revisited, only got one thing right, that Joe Francis is a cultural pollutant, the rest of the piece simply scatters blame in all the wrong places.

Story link via Karen DeCoster, who has few words of her own on this subject matter worth reading.

UPDATE: Jon Swift also comments on Franke-Ruta’s piece in his post on the subject titled Raising the Minimum Age for Porn, if only for the following observation.

I also think Franke-Ruta may have found a way in which pro-abortion feminists and those opposing abortion can finally agree. If a woman is not mature enough to have control over how her body is being used in images when she is 18, how can we say she is mature enough to have control over her body in deciding to get an abortion?

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