A treatise on the Suicide Girls

The other day I took a shot at the Suicide Girls in my blog about tattoos and got a few messages about it, nothing huge. I was kind of hoping for more so it would set me up for this blog but it didn’t happen that way.

First I want to say this was inspired partially by a blog written by Kristen Ferrell, who by the way is an amazing artist you should check out, she has a ton of talent. She talked about the exploitative porn machine is that is the Suicide Girls but I will touch on that only a bit here.

Before I explain how the Suicide Girl trend irritates the ever living shit out of me, I want to take a second to discuss something positive about it because I don’t want them to get lost in my overall opinion.

The Good Thing About the Suicide Girls

The models show us there is more to the concept of beauty than the traditional idea of beauty. Some of the girls on the site are truly beautiful and I think when some of the people see them it makes them reconsider what they think true beauty is. Plus they give me something to flog the bishop to when I am sick of looking at the regular stuff, it’s nice to see a girl tied up with “super freak” tattooed above her ass crack. Also the whole neo-pinup thing isn’t exactly a bad movement.

Also I have no issue with the girls posing, what a girl wants to do with her body is none of my business. So I don’t want anyone to think I am saying porn is bad or anything in that ilk because that is the last thing I think. If you ever looked in my closet and under my mattress you would understand that I am a major supporter of the industry.

Now onto everything else.

The whole suicide girl trend annoys the piss out of me more than anything I have seen in the last… year, month… how about… day.

1) Porn is porn lets not disguise it as something else.

I hate the fact that the whole suicide girl scene markets themselves as an empowerment for women or being this alternative lifestyle. When really what it boils down to is just another type of porn, another segment of people that the porn industry can market to. Let’s not give it any more credit that it deserves… You have Playboy if you like airbrushing, Penthouse is you like the girls slightly skankier, Hustler if you want to see some slightly more dirty stuff, Perfect Ten if you like them barely legal, Swank if you want to see a womens small intestines, and the Suicide Girls if you like your girl with a different type of look.

There is nothing wrong with different types of porn (well except for some Japanese videos but that is another blog for another day), why hide what you really are?

Plus is it really empowering to women when the business lies and says that it is a woman owned company, when really a male is listed as the president and it is owned by two couples?

2) *SOME* of the female fans are the posers of the worst kind

If you go to their “blog” or advertisement for their porn site, however you want to interpret what they use their myspace page for, you see girls longing to be on the site. But you go to their individual pages and they state that they are anti-everything and bragging how they are essentially individuals of the highest order or “counter culture”.

As humans we all want to belong to something, we all want to be part of a larger group, whether we like to admit it or not. These girls would lap up the urine of any of the girls on the site in order to get on there and be a part of the Suicide Girls, which there is nothing wrong with that. At least admit to it, admit to the fact that you want to be apart of it, and that really you aren’t an individual in the least, if you were truly an individual you would do your own thing.

3) In the end isn’t it all about marketing and exploiting your workers?

The Suicide Girls are a successful brand and have done well in marketing their product but at what cost? They pay their models very little and own the rights to their models work, also they put in a solid non-compete clause into the girl’s contract limiting them on other modeling opportunities. So “Angelika the Screamo Cutter” can’t go and pose for islicemyinnerthighbecausedaddydidntlove.com without getting sued. Frankly I don’t know why she would want to pose there though because that url is a little long to remember. Meanwhile the Suicide Girls can sell her likeness and do with it whatever they wish.

Now with the companies contract with content distributors they can sell the modeling content to other porn sites, content which the girls have signed away. This could be considered a questionable business practice which I find ironic because on one supporters myspace page they have a blog destroying Wal-Mart.
Their front about being this alternative, woman owned, women supporting group, is just a bunch of bullshit, they are just like most businesses concerned with the bottom line and how to line their pockets. They aren’t any better than Nike, Wal-Mart, and any other company people love to loathe.

So if you want to support a real woman owned, women supporting porn, sign up for club Jenna, so you can fund whatever drug habit that has shrunk Jenna Jameson’s face to make her look like Skeletor.

What do you think about the Suicide Girls? And should we really even care?