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That’ll Do, Pig. That’ll Do.

Published on 12.13.2006 in Assholes, Feminism, People and Pr0n. 4 Comments

Considering that Joe Francis makes $40 million a year coercing young women to take their tops off with alcohol and peer pressure, it ain’t much. It is something:

The founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video empire was sentenced to community service Wednesday for his company’s guilty plea to federal charges of failing to monitor the ages of the women in its videos.

The company, Mantra Films Inc., also agreed to pay $1.6 million in fines for using drunken 17-year-olds in videos it filmed on Panama City Beach during spring break and failing to properly label its DVDs and videos as required by federal law.

U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak told company founder Joe Francis he added the community service because it did not appear a fine would be a meaningful punishment.

That something doesn’t sound like much until I got to the judge’s jab.

The judge ordered Francis, his company president, general counsel and chief financial officer to each perform eight hours of community service monthly for the next 30 months.

But Smoak said the corporate officers could avoid the obligation, giving Francis the option of “stepping up” and serving 16 hours a month of community service by himself in their place.

Attorney Aaron Dyer, representing Francis and the company, said he did not know if Francis would take on the entire sentence himself.

I say he should serve at a battered women’s shelter. It sure cuts into the party bus time.

Um, Yeah

Published on 10.10.2006 in Bloggery, Feminism and Pr0n. 5 Comments

Amp, I feel the stressing on the bills thing, but this was still a really fucking bad idea. “Don’t believe the hype,” indeed.

Thinking more about this issue: I remember reading Barry’s initial announcement and wondered why it was so important that he explicitly state the new owner of his website would never put porn ads on Amptoons.com. What we’ve got here is a man who sold his feminist blog to a porn outlet, misled his audience by using couched and secretive terminology, and did not allow anyone to ask questions or voice concern by disabling comments and trackbacks to this announcement. So far, he has yet to acknowledge this deception publicly with any of his peers, and as far as I can gather, did not make any of his co-bloggers and guest-bloggers aware of this transaction.

Some may think this is small beans, but in a community where sexual politics are so very personal, as well as political, this is an enormous business gaffe of exceeding irony. Of all the things one can do to save a buck, making money off the backs (and mouths and pussies) of women is not one that I encourage for a feminist man.

Not to mention the always necessary addition of “ethnic” porn for the discerning crowd.

If there is no shame, Barry, don’t bother lying about it.