Re: Active Duty update thread
Some posters at JUB get a really big kick out of stirring up shit with their phony indignation machine. A bit too big.
If they're not throwing fits that someone is "homophobic" or "biphobic" or "racist" or "ageist" or some other thing, they're throwing fits that they're not gay enough or not straight enough or too old. Or have bad hair. Or silly tattoos. Or their dick curves to the right.
I remember when I worked for a studio that only did young college athletes jerking off and people said we were homophobic because we didn't have gay sex on the site. Or we were racist because we didn't' have enough Asians on the site... but when we released an Asian model, the same posters came in and railed at us because they didn't like the model's
name and said his "pubes look stupid."
Some people live to make big screaming fits about anything. Without it they wither and die. I've been on the receiving end of it so many times I've lost count and it never makes a dent of difference to the studio. If anything, sales usually go up when the controversy starts. (I'll never forget when a few posters here at JUB were claiming that after a rather odd publicity stunt I was part of where we faked a break in a massacre on one of the sites I worked for, the members had all cancelled their memberships and we had gone under. Truth was that was that in the wake of all the publicity, membership had gone up.)
I tell people over and over again at Industry conventions and industry-only forums is that "you should pay attention to what people on JUB say, file it away and forget it." Few of the people making the most trouble have been members of any of the sites they rail against endlessly and wouldn't join even if you changed every aspect of your site to match their every desire.
I know plenty of people who have spiderweb tattoos and they haven't killed anyone. I also know people who have tear drop tattoos and they haven't killed anyone, either. I've been told that the deer antlers on my back represent "satan" and that they represent "Kernunos" and that they represent "a sexist, anti-woman pagan ideal that men are the hunters and women are useless." (it's actually for the stag patronus in the Harry Potter books).
I was told my two-headed pig symbolized my being a "Cum Pig." When in reality, it was a poster for a theme night at my favorite bar that I got tattooed on my leg as a publicity stunt.
I was also told it meant I was a lover of Bacon. I'm a Vegan.
I've been told I'm a Nazi because I have a Picasso Painting on my arm that "Glorifies the Nazis attacking Portugal." In fact, the painting itself was quite an anti-Nazi painting but I got it because to me it symbolized being a gay kid in a farming village.
Dak Ramsey has been refused work because of the BioHazard symbol tattooed on his belly. It's the symbol of HIV+ men who bareback and like to pass the virus on to chasers. Except BioHazard was also Dak's favorite metal band in high school and he's HIV-. I know this because (a) he told me and (b) I've seen his STD test results.
I once worked with a model who was covered in odd Christian tattoos that seemed to suggest he was an extreme Christian right-winger. He got them because he was brought up in that environment and wanted to symbolize "what I have been drowned in my whole life but it never sank in... it only stays on the surface."
Not all artwork has the same meaning to everyone. Clearly.
Throw all the tantrums you want... the only thing it will achieve is that studios will stop coming here, posting their content, answering questions and talking with fans. Sad, really, that when a producer comes to show up what he's up to and what he's done and give previews of what he's doing, a few busybody Bettys need to fire up that phony indignation machine.
Welcome ezwriter 
Again Welcome 
