Is Duke ‘Supportive’ of Teen Porn?

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Before we discuss the latest about Duke University freshman Miriam Weeks, let me first call your attention to a highly relevant illustration of how liberals use word games to manipulate public perception. In 1999, Maggie Gallagher produced a fascinating report entitled, The Age of Unwed Mothers: Is Teen Pregnancy the Problem?

What Gallagher’s report made clear was that the media had helped birth-control activists manufacture public concern over a “teenage pregnancy crisis” that did not actually exist. In point of fact, the birth rate for U.S. teenagers peaked during the 1950s — the Golden Age of Family Values — and has been declining ever since.

What had changed since the 1950s, Gallagher demonstrated, was not that more teenagers were getting pregnant (they weren’t) but that pregnant teenagers were no longer getting married. One of the sneaky little tricks by which public perception was manipulated, Gallagher noted, was by including births to 18- and 19-year-old women — young adults — in  “teen pregnancy” statistics:

[T]he bulk of today’s teen pregnancy problem is less “children having children” than increasing numbers of young adult women having babies outside of marriage. The majority of unwed births in the United States today are to single women in their 20s — neither “children” nor “Murphy Browns.” Unwed teen moms account for over 30 percent of U.S. babies born outside of marriage. But unwed teen moms younger than 18 account for only 13 percent of babies born out of wedlock.
Thus, even arbitrarily confining our concern to mothers under 20, rising rates of teen births are being driven not primarily by minors, but by young women old enough to vote, sign contracts, and serve in the armed forces. Almost three-fifths of unwed teen births are to young adult women who are 18 and 19 years old.

Of course, it is true that a 19-year-old is a teenager, but this isn’t what most people think about when they hear crusaders talking about the need for educational programs to prevent “teen pregnancy.” No, that term conjures up visions of a pregnant 14- or 15-year-old, a mere school girl, probably from an impoverished family, at risk of becoming a high-school dropout dependent on welfare.

This emotional trigger is exactly what the birth-control/abortion/sex-education lobby intend to exploit to gain taxpayer-funded support for their programs and, if you oppose their projects, they will imply that you’re in favor of “kids having kids” — and never mind, of course, that many of these “kids” are 19-year-old women.

So now we return our attention to 19-year-old Miriam Weeks who, as “Belle Knox,” has been doing porn videos to pay her tuition at prestigious Duke University. William McGurn notes a detail:

Since the first headlines about the Duke University freshman making her way through college by making porn, we have learned many details about her life.
We’ve learned, for example, that being paid to have sex on camera is “freeing, it is empowering, it is wonderful, it is how the world should be.” . . .
Yet perhaps the most indecent detail in this tale is a tidbit about her university that has received almost no attention. It appears near the end of a profile that ran in The Chronicle — Duke’s student paper — which refers to her as “Lauren.” Here’s what it says:
“Lauren reached out to Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. Moneta affirmed that the University’s policy was to be supportive of all student identities.”
Note: He didn’t say “supportive of all students.” He said “supportive of all student identities.”
When this reporter e-mailed Moneta to ask if his words mean Duke really makes no judgment on a student who has become a porn actress, Moneta replied that federal law and Duke policy preclude him from talking about a student’s case. But he didn’t take issue with the Chronicle characterization.
Neither does the young woman. Her name is Miriam Weeks, and in a recent CNN interview with Piers Morgan, she affirmed that Duke had been “very supportive” of her.

Read the rest at the New York Post. A detail of this “empowering” career that almost no one in the media has mentioned is that “Belle Knox” is being marketed at sites that specialize in “teen porn,” featuring barely legal girls whose appeal is their extreme youth.

No feminist or liberal seems to find this objectionable. Apparently, it’s OK for teenage girls to get paid to provide perverse entertainment for creeps, just as long as the girls don’t get pregnant.

 

Y’know, I’m almost tempted to take the Amtrak train to New York, just to get a story about the media mob scene we can expect when America’s new feminist icon appears at a public event.





 
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  2. You don’t need to take the train: an aspiring shoe-leather reporter McCainiac in New York will surely, surely! volunteer to do the work for you.

  3. No feminist or liberal seems to find this objectionable. Apparently, it’s OK for teenage girls to get paid to provide perverse entertainment for creeps, just as long as the girls don’t get pregnant.

    That’s a straw man. I don’t think liberals/feminists will have an “objection” even if Belle Knox chooses to get pregnant as a teenager (18+). Feminists/liberals don’t force women(18+) with choices regarding their pregnancies.

  4. Are you guys really still arguing about birth control? LOLOLOL! There are too many people on the planet as it is, and as we all know, resources are not infinite. The two best ways to keep the population stable is to educate women, and keep them out of the house where their only function is baby maker(sorry the Dugard’s are psycho’s)and free birth control for all women. Done. Stop living in the Old Testament where God will punish us for not pro-creating like rabbits. and having sex for fun.

  5. They’re still under the impression that pro-choice means forced abortions. Science, as well as sociology, is completely against them though on this issue. All they have is dying religious morality.

  6. I’m reminded of the anti-gun crown using the same Twainesque statistic about “children” dying from “gun violence” … when the vast majority is 17-19 y/o gangbangers shooting each other.

  7. That’s true, but the guns are coming from legit gun shops in the burbs, and gun shows. I guess as long as the rights of the white middle class aren’t infringed it’s not a big deal for black and hispanic teens to murder one another and sometimes take out innocent bystanders that include infants?

  9. They do. It’s obviously heternormative patriachal oppression to want to have kids. You didn’t know this?

  10. BZZZZZ! Wrong. Obviously you have no idea of gang culture or how it exists or organized today and the myriad of ways they arm themselves. (you think EME is getting their guns via white middle class??)

    And what makes you think it is “no big deal”?

    I have 16 years in judicial/law enforcement.

  11. Wow, guess all the myriad of articles from Left-feminists about how stupid, idiotic, self-defeating YOUR LIFE WILL BE RUINED!!1! Eleventy!! if you have a child young don’t mean a thing?

  12. Ding ding ding!! You’re exactly right. Teenage gangbangers can’t legitimately buy guns at either suburban gun shops or at gun shows.

    Their guns are acquired the old fashioned way…by stealing them or else by buying them from illegitimate black market sources.

  13. I’m sure McCain and his supporters here would be overjoyed if Duke threw Belle Knox out of college for doing legal porn.

    They will also be happy if at the least Duke doesn’t act against harassment by fellow students on campus.

    Anything less would mean Duke is ‘supportive’ of Teen Porn.

    (Belle Knox raised by two religious parents, father an Army doc, and she claims to be a College Republican.)

    And this they just can’t digest.

    Maybe you should stop blaming feminism and question her sex suppressing religious upbringing against which she might be rebelling against.

  16. You know, when you’re posting with a fake email address and an IP (178.254.39.32) from a German proxy server, I’m not inclined to heed your arguments, even if you actually had any arguments, which you don’t.

  18. Tut tut, Anamika, tut tut!

    It’s not that we’re hoping for anything, Rather, RSM is analyzing the results of marxism, as applied through feminism encouraging the destructive behavior of young people.

    The intent of this article, as I see it, is to help readers (a) apply Sun Tzu’s maxim about knowing your enemy, and (b) to spread the shame to other people who are not steeped in this poisonous sub-culture.

    Tut tut, Anamika! It’s not that we can’t digest the material, it’s that said material isn’t healthy to consume in the first place. Tut tut!

  19. BUAWHAHAHAHAHA!!

    Go to “hqnewyork.com”, the URL on that poster, and you find that it’s “HEADQUARTERS GENTLEMEN’S CLUB”, a/k/a a burlesque club.

    In other words, the feminists at Duke are allied with a capitalistic venture of the oppressive patriarchs.

    I’m sure that “Belle Knox” will see many dollar bills shoved into her thong in the years to come. She’ll pay off her student loans toot sweet, and show those repressive parents a thing or two, you betcha!

  21. Maybe I just have a suspicious mind, but I marvel that everyone seems to believe her tale that she is doing porn for tuition money. It’s a convenient story that tends to put a gloss of respectability over having sex for money, albeit a thin one. She already has a record of prevarication – she first blamed her parents, then backpedaled and blamed Duke. She passed up a full scholarship to Vanderbilt. Without more proof, other than her word, why should we believe her? Maybe she is doing it for other reasons. Like lots of money.

  22. That’s entirely likely, if not correct.

    However, it would mean “Belle Knox” has surrendered to the lusts of the oppressive patriarchy and the lure of their wads of capitalistic dollar bills.

    While this would be an honest (and refreshingly so) answer, that goes against the feminist/marxist narrative.

  23. If you can prove that, why can’t the cops? If you’re right, why aren’t they staking out the gunshops and taking down the straw buyers?

  27. Are the Duggard’s on welfare? As for too many people on the planet perhaps it hasn’t occurred to you that you’re one of those too many. The best way to keep the population relatively stable is to get rid of welfare and government husband.

  28. Indeed parents should be proud of their prostitute daughters. Colleges should be proud of having prostitutes as undergraduates. Anything else you would like to add to the conversation?

  30. I can take care of it right here….

    I denounce you!

    There. Feel reeducated and all better now?

  32. Seeing as how ugly Duke’s cheerleaders are, I think they want to promote the fact that “hey, we have a hot girl on our campus!”

  33. Those gun shops in the ‘burbs sell to purchasers in the ‘burbs… who DON’T kill each other.
    Tell me: Why can they be trusted to have guns safely in their homes, but black and Hispanic teens can’t?
    I think it’s a big deal for black and Hispanic teens to murder one another. Why don’t blacks and Hispanics think that?

  36. A lap dance is merely Performance Art(tm) showing an Empowered Womyn rubbing her superiority all over a member of the Male Patriarchy [and all over his Member!]!

  39. Dammit, I meant to denounce myself, but I was watching a Standing Rib Roast and Taters cook in the oven. That’s my only excuse.

  40. Sir, your heterornormativity is absolutely embarrassing to those people who will become empowered by the thought of waiting breathlessly for Mzz. Knox to perform her art on them.

  41. Enough of this rot…

    [Bob walks into another room where there is a ten foot high sculpture of Thorian Hammer, surround by the ashes of sci-fi books used as offerings.]

    [Bob lifts his arms outstretched and looks at the Hammer.]

    Hear me O Merciful Wombaticus, slayer of Trolls! Grant us your Sacred Compassion and rid us of that foul harridan, that demented Douche who carryeth her own bag of dastardly desolation! Relieve us – we who are not worthy to prepare your taxes – from the presence of Anamika! For this, we offer to you the Rule 5 Babe of your choice!

    [Bob collapses into a heap before the statue of the Thorian Hammer.]

  43. Except Mzz Knox is skinny as a bean pole, she looks kind of Lena Dunhamesque…I denounce myself ahead of time

  48. Hate is such an awful word. Real men don’t hate Mzz Knox, but we do despise the fact that she has become every parent’s nightmare. Answer this question if you can…would you give your daughter kudos for becoming a prostitute?

  49. “…would you give your daughter kudos for becoming a prostitute?”

    I won’t, but if your daughter acts in porn (for whatever reason) would you and Bob Belvedere make similar comments about her physical appearance?

  50. One of the first things I noticed was how young she looked. Of course, all 18-19 year olds look super young on account of the actors and actresses playing that age on television are all 28…

    But there was definitely a young-fresh thing going on.

    Apparently even in the porn world it’s important to look as though you haven’t been… around.

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