Well.... to be fair, I'd have to say that Mr. O'Keefe is probably a "misogynist" only from the progressive/liberal perspective, which tends to include a wider definition of personal freedom and responsibility than the social-conservative perspective. I don't think it's unreasonable to view porn actresses as either victims of a corrupt media-driven social system, or even as opportunistic money-grabbers, shameless or otherwise. "Whores" is a loaded word, of course, and it would be better not to use it, but IMO it doesn't really become misogyny until you start making assumptions about tendencies towards evil vs. good, or start claiming that women are "morally weak" and gravitate to these kinds of things as part of their basic nature, etc., etc. (Unless you just hate women in general, of course.)
I'd also agree that traditional standards of coverage for an encyclopedia are faaaaarrrrr better than Wikipedia's in this particular regard. Nevertheless, I'd also have to say that most of these porn-star bios are relatively harmless, as long as they're not too explicit in themselves, and the porn-star in question wants them (which, I'd imagine, is usually the case). The Aja bio doesn't even give her real name, at least not at the moment.
And of course, this is actually a good example of where a BLP opt-out policy would be ideal, since it would give the porn-stars themselves a chance to (at least partially) clean the slate if they ever decide to leave the industry.
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