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. I won’t presume to speak for Bob, but I raised my daughters to have a better opinion of themselves, so I don’t have that to worry about it. But the fact remains that this young woman put herself out there and as an adult, she has to put up with all the guff that goes with it just as my girls would if they had gone the same path.

  3. We’re getting plenty of practice at that denouncing thing around here. We’ll be quite good at it when the NWO arrives.

  5. Easy now, easy! Whoa there Thunder! You wouldn’t want to get too close to one of them with facts. Might cause a temper tantrum.

  6. I second the motion and supply a Lamb to be slain in sacrifice to great Womaticus Maximus, slayer of Trolls so that we are relived of the pollution she spreads in this great blog.

  7. You don’t understand. WE like seeing such displays of irrationality just before Wombaticus Maximus denies them further access. We derive great pleasure in watching the ban hammer swing.

  9. you are on the down low aren’t you. anybody that has that kind of stupid response to a simple statement has to be on the down low. Viturperative little prk that you are.

  16. ah yes….the sound of your zipper coming down for the Obama train
    you little axx hole…..hey kids…he’s still on the hook, not big enough to keep. Let’s let him wiggle some more.

  17. Ahhhh…so it’s whitey’s fault!
    Yeah I can see the problem. All those middle class white folk buying guns legally then traveling into black and hispanic neighborhoods at night to sell those guns to young men of color.
    Yep. A vast conspiracy of genocide against black folk by evil whites who are still resentful over the Emancipation Proclamation.

    Hey! The rev. farrakhan is calling, the mother plane is about to depart.

  18. quartermaster said walking away with a dk up his axx. you are on the downlow right? everything you say is code for that according to eric holder’s note book on “the language of flutterfks.” You fit the profile perfectly. admit it. Its ok. you’ll feel better. (he said laughing at the wiggling little fish on the hook.

  19. I think it was in one of the comment threads yesterday, where someone directed us to this Federalist piece about arguing with the Left in the context of climate change. The author’s thesis is that the Left can only speak in metaphors or meta-narratives, and thus, like Star Trek’s Children of Tama, cannot understand cold hard facts. The various troll remarks on this thread are proof of that thesis, not to mention the Left’s schizophrenic reactions to Ms. Weeks. We have Repressive religion, religious parents, unfair costs of having something you want, female empowerment, the patriarchy, etc. sometimes in the same paragraph. It matters not whether these things are philosophically or factually consistent. Only the metaphor matters and then only to those for whom the metaphor is the sole method of communication. Simply put, for such people, understanding rational argument relying on evidence is like understanding the click languages of the Kalahari.

    OT: For the record, I made some kick-ass cabbage rolls for the wife and kids tonight. I defy anyone to make better.

  23. Hell… An’ I done thot that just flaggin’ them offensive coments woulda brung the Great Marsupial in the Sky outta his slumber for are deliverin’s! (An’ I never knew Belevedere was such a great lesbian!)

  27. 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. Not that liberals have a problem with that.

  29. That’s been my opinion from the start. She’s not repaying student loans at this point leaving me to assume that perhaps she has figured out that she’ll make nothing with a degree in women’s studies. So the narrative she would have us believe is that she was forced to do porn, but she’s proud of it?

  33. Oh it’s more fun to point out how absurd his comments are.That a porn actress would find any family values, religious or otherwise, sexually repressive isn’t such a big surprise, is it? And the contradictory, I was forced to do porn to pay for college but I’m really proud of it. And to say that we hate her when it is in fact our concern for the welfare of women which drives our commentary is simply wrong.

  37. There are 4 witches in Oz. There’s the Good Witch (of South) and the Wicked Witch (of West). Other two are minor characters…

    In the 2013 film adaptation of Wizard of Oz (year when Belle Knox turned to porn), the good witch looks stunning, the wicked witch was also stunningly beautiful when young and becomes ugly only latter in her life.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3uOe1sTVAE

  38. Southern Ivy, forsooth.
    Duke, part of the Ivy league? OK, William and Mary I can go with, since it’s so venerated. Maybe even UVA given the history.
    Egads, these people can leave nothing alone. Next I’ll be hearing is that a School Of Mines is an art college.

  40. Heh. The actual solution is the same used to control over-population of deer in the northern states: permit based culling seasons. Licensed hunters get a permit for a specified number of culls (the non-productive members of the herd, i.e., under producing and over consuming young bucks and non-producing fertile does), from areas of over-population (metropolitan areas, cities, etc.)
    Remember, if we don’t manage the size of the herd, natural selection will through disease and starvation.
    /sarc

  41. Heh. They apparently think that a pregnancy is a parasitic infection to be ‘cured’. These idiots often refer to the fetus as a ‘parasite’ growing in the female uterus, a ‘clump of cells’ to be discarded or removed, ‘curing’ the pregnancy. I think the ‘clump of cells’ in their cranium is what needs to be removed …

  45. My corned beef briskets are in the dutch oven as I post this at 8:13 AM … bathed in several bottles of Guinness stout, wherein they shall slowly simmer until about 6-ish this evening …

  49. Well, that’s the conundrum: feminists can’t find Miss Weeks’ choices objectionable, because to do so would imply that she may not take any (legal) choices that she wishes without her motives or her reasoning being called into question, and that would infringe on women’s rights.

    Yet, on the other hand, you have our favorite really radical feminist telling us that no woman can ever take the choice to have sex with men, so a good part of Miss Weeks’ work is appalling.

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