QUOTE(Somey @ Sat 1st August 2009, 6:32pm)
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.
I don't think Kevin would
quite agree with you on the opt-out policy:
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Its not a question of what an individual needs, or does not need, to know. It is a question of this being an encyclopedia, and and as such, we are not in the business of concealing relevant information, in order to make the subject of a given article more comfortable about the (shameful) way they make their living. If this person is actually notable to the extent that there ought to be an article about her (I, for one, find that most unlikely, and even a little distasteful), then it is absurd not to include her real name. The idea of a biographical article that does not contain the subject's name is frankly bizarre. [[User:KevinOKeeffe|KevinOKeeffe]] ([[User talk:KevinOKeeffe|talk]]) 19:27, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
I doubt that whores are the only people Kevin hates. See his comments at
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