Dragon Bait

Everything is scary!
Everyone's posts have me all riled up, and now I don't know where to start.
Ryan Gosling has a major point. I always noticed that in movies, and more and more lately I am becoming convinced that violence is becoming more acceptable in young people's movies, and movies that are half-for-kids (like KICKASS, for example, which was pretty well done), and that mild sensual kissing or clothing removal is considered obscene. Of course, he is going to be in Gangster Squad, and what are the chances there won't be any cheap sex and violence thrills? I just saw 007, and it was awesome. My friend Todd the other day told me about how he got smacked by his Mother for using the word "sexy", but the thing is that very same kid also watched the Godfather with his Mom before, like, second grade. Another fine film!
I want to say "What's wrong with sex in the movies! Sex never hurt anybody!"
But of course it has.
I have strong feelings about pornography. I have seen a only a fraction of it out there, but I've still seen quite a bit (my friends are coarse, of course). I have seen the very cliche long-fingernail-silly-music stuff, I have seen spoofs of other movies (Lord of the G-String, In Diana Jones), I have seen hardcore, gay, and fetish porn, and honestly I feel that porn is sex turned into violence. I have also seen such a phenomenon as LOL Porn, or porn gone wrong, which can be pretty funny (picture awful fake orgasms that look like brain damage).

No bones about it, porn degrades women, it plays off of people's insecurities, and it exploits power structures that already exist and serve to oppress. Usually I find the plots in pornography distasteful and boring, and they therefore do not excite me much. I don't mean to be a prude, of course... and to each his own. Except when it comes to child porn, or porn that MIMICS child porn. These incite such wrath in me. It's so insidious too, the way pornographers can inject things suggestive of child porn into movies.

My critique of cyberspace is only that it makes us THINK we lose our freedom, that we are more identifiable and known and exposed, but really, we are more anonymous. Or rather, we are more confronted with our insignificance, or our own... what am I trying to say?
Rodriguez, from our readings, says this:
"The architectural structure of the world wide web is rhizomatic; no linear progression to guide users." (pg. 371)