{"id":466,"date":"2006-08-10T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2006-08-10T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T19:21:58","slug":"scumbag-revisited-and-placing-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/08\/10\/scumbag-revisited-and-placing-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Scumbag, revisited, and placing blame."},"content":{"rendered":"

The LA Times story by Claire Hoffman on Joe Francis and Girls Gone Wild<\/a> has really been getting a lot of press lately.  I've gotten a lot of hits on my write-up about it<\/a>, mostly from the Chicagoist post<\/a> which was nice enough to throw me a link.  Pandagon also has an interesting take<\/a> on it, stating that for Joe Francis the main pleasure in Girls Gone Wild is actually in forcing women to do things they don't actually want to do.  While I'd love to agree with Amanda on this, I think that in this case it's really too easy to villainize Francis, letting the women completely off the hook.  One must bear in mind that the places in which Girls Gone Wild operates are the sorts of places where people frequently "get wild".  There are always more private, demure clubs for the girls who really are not interested in flashing their boobies.<\/p>\n

On sort of a different side of the issue, John at Dealbreaker.com<\/a> states that even Francis's business philosophy is full of crap.<\/p>\n

Girls Gone Wild came to Olympia once, not too long ago, to the now-vanished (not surprising) Barcode.  People got arrested, and the bar was practically fined out of existence for allowing nudity, sex, raucous behavior, and other sundry perversions.  Good on ya, Olympia.<\/p>\n

Diesel Sweeties covers Girls Gone Wild<\/a>, which makes sense because R. Stevens' blog was the first place I saw the article linked.  Quote of the day is definately: "My dignity fits me better."  Hooray for dignity!<\/p>\n

If I would keep up with my webcomics in a more timely fashion (silly me, I must be busy getting ready to MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY), I would have noticed that Jeffry "Snakes on a mutha' fuckin' plane" Rowland has also, in webcomics form, stepped up the assault on Joe Francis<\/a>.  For those not in the know, The Poopmonster (aka R. Stevens) is the one who strangles Joe Francis from behind in panel 5.<\/p>\n

I'm sure there are plenty more webcomics out there using their voices to shout down Joe Francis, Girls Gone Wild, and inebriated booby-bobbing.  Which is one of the greatest things about webcomics, really.  They're funny, sure, but they're pertinent as well! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The LA Times story by Claire Hoffman on Joe Francis and Girls Gone Wild has really been getting a lot of press lately.  I've gotten a lot of hits on my write-up about it, mostly from the Chicagoist post which was nice enough to throw me a link.  Pandagon also has an interesting take on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}