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One Cool Thing About Working for Hustler
Okay, maybe I'm hyperaware of mandatory arbitration clauses because MoJo has consumer-advocate rock-star Stephanie Mencimer on staff and currently on our front page. But I couldn't help but exult a little over this sentence at the bottom of a Larry Flynt Publishing freelance contract (yes, I've done a little journalism for them. Smart, investigative vagina journalism):
"Any dispute or claim arising out of the Letter Agreement shall be determined only by the courts in California, and therefore, you hereby agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of California."
Court! How quaint! Seriously, mandatory arbitration clauses are now so standard that it's nearly impossible to buy a car, get a job, or even eat a cheeseburger without giving up your ability to sue companies that screw (!) you. But not at Hustler. Whatever my thoughts on some of Larry Flynt's politics, at least the pornographer puts his money where his litigious mouth is and lets contributors keep their right to take his whole sexy empire to court. Which is going to come in really handy when his art department photoshops some giant naked boobs onto my contributor's photo.
Speaks volumes
How sad that one of the few groups left with principles and empathy are pornographers. But I guess if you watch people bump uglies all day it's tough to be upset about anything.
Hustler
Commendable. I've not reviewed the terms and conditions of his freelance contracts but far too many companies expect the submitter to do so under 'work for hire' where the submitter gives up all rights to their work product.
Hustler article
SB "exult"
Homophones!
Dear Roger:
You are my hero. Thanks for the catch.
Hustler
I did not work at *Hustler* but at a short-lived, more sophisticated magazine called *Chic.* Larry Flynt pronounced that "chick," and when he changed his mind about what type content sold well, he proceeded to turn *Chic* into almost a copy of *Hustler.* I was an articles editor and only saw Mr. Flynt once or twice; I think he was flying in from time to time from the company headquarters in the East. I did not form an opinion of him much until I read his autobiography and I now see him as a champion of the First Amendment and a true American hero who gave much of his body so that we can have greater freedom of speech.
hustler
There is no better example of the hypocracy of America's convoluted moral structure than the little tale of Larry Flynt and his Religious Right nemesis, Charles Keating.
Representing Himself, the Moral Majority, and who knows what Sanctum of Wall Street, he strutted and danced the Pilgrim shuffle (like Swaggert just before his fall), smugly sanctified, intoning anguished lamentations of Flynt's evil. And since this was a matter of being in court, Flynt's "legal" transgressions.
Fast forward to Keating, the eighties, going to the slammer, Keating as Scooter Libby, taking the fall for . . well . . wait . . . John McCain!, a lifelong member of the highly exclusive Keating Five. Recall, if you will, how much of this corrupt history you did not hear about from the media during McCain's loss to a man who never got involved in all that high-stratisphere financial slikkery, Barrack Obama.
The one single video clip of Keating's release from his daffodils-on-the-window, steaks-on-the-griddle prison sentence was a brief clip of himself hurrying along on a narrow street, an image I will never forget. I have seen much of the worst on the narrow streets of America, but none as sleazy as Keating's slouching gait, defiantly topped by a completely unrepentant scarecrow mug.
I'm glad I stopped
I'm glad I stopped subscribing to Mother Jones long ago. Coming on a "progressive" site only to see the likes of Hustler being plugged makes me disappointed, but sadly not surprised. Seems the MO of "progressives" everywhere is that women certainly have rights, as long as it's the right to continue to be sexual objects for men. Reacting against the conservative, uptight moralizing about sex doesn't equal keeping patriarchal, oppressive structures in place. Makes me sick.
Sounds like....
....Anonymous is either on the rag, or needs a little 'ooomph', to me!
Whaddaya Think, Larry?
I like BOTH these Mags; as they both embrace my 'values' of Freedom, in different but equally important ways; though I'd strongly suspect that few Christians would ever acknowledge that I even have any values - especially since they've been sending all these too-little girls to try and F**k me lately; as IF!!!
Thaty's what I get for liking small boobs - and for buying other fine Larry Flynt Publications, like 'Barely 18'! (that one is yours, isn't it; or is it Barely Legal?)
Hey, if women my age can go 'a 'cougaring' - what's wrong with my doing so, too?
JimRinX
Lighten up, Doris. Coupla
Lighten up, Doris. Coupla beers oughta kill the bees up yer ass.
This provision is not as
This provision is not as consumer-friendly as it appears. If you don't reside in California, you have to litigate long-distance which is prohibitively expensive if you don't live there.
If you hate MoJO so much,
then why the h*ll are you browsing and have the nerve to post a comment about, of all things, Larry Flint's Hustler mag when there are many more articles you could have read? Sure makes a person wonder if you despise the progressive tone of MoJo, why a troll like you would even waste your time dropping by. But it sounds to me like you really love wandering over to the progressive side of life since your thug party has nothing of substance to offer our country but "no, no, no", and no leader except Fatty Limbaugh and how interesting can he be with his nonstop jealous bloviating about our hunk for POTUS, Obama. If I were a thug, I'd have to switch party allegiance for the simple pleasure of listening and looking at Obama as opposed to Fatty Thug Leader Limbaugh. I'm female and I read nothing in this article about women being used by men in any capacity so if you don't like the article, stop reading MoJo and don't comment as we don't have time for your immature antics shouting 'look at me'.
hate
The point is not hating Mother Jones. MJ has a reputation as a progressive magazine. The point is being disappointed that "progressives" support Larry Flynt and his misogynist empire. The backlash against women's rights does not solely come from the conservative religious right - it's alive and well with "progressives" as well. Leftists have thoroughly absorbed the porn attitudes - see the condescending comment stating that women that complain about the porn empire are either unable to think logically because their menstrual cycle has confused their little lady-brains, or they just need to be forced to have sex.
The biggest back lash to
The biggest back lash to woman's rights comes from people like you. The attitude that " those poor dumb girls allowing themselves to be exploited by those dirty old men." Your post presupposes that the women involved in this are not smart enough to not get exploited or that the men who run (there are many women by the way) what you call pornography are so powerful they can make these women do things against their will. What is your objection exactly? Is it that men (and many women by the way ) find human bodies gratifying or that someone is making money from that? Are you trying to nullify the GREAT advantage that God in her infinite wisdom gave to women? That is that She gave men two heads but only enough blood to run one at a time. If your sisters with an adult and sound mind, of their own free will take advantage of that what is your objection?
Porn Standards
Every industry has standards why should porn be any different.
Suddenly I'm happy I don't
Suddenly I'm happy I don't subscribe, too... response to a legitimate concern about Hustler being plugged by saying someone's "on the rag?" How do people NOT see this as misogynistic?