Sasha Grey: The Internet's First Porn Star
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🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
If you were a teenage boy in 2008 and you didn’t have a “God Bless Sasha Grey t-shirt”, did you even exist? Ever since indie sleaze darling, Sasha Grey, burst onto the porn scene in the mid aughts, its become a bit cooler to say hey, “I watch this.” But while Sasha represented a feminist shift in the industry, her fringe sexuality may have played into a dangerous trend in internet porn. In this episode, Hannah and Maia ask the important question: should Sasha be The Pied Piper of Porn™, or can we find a Sasha grey area? Listen for tangents such as: the Tina Fey-aissance, and Stanley Kubrick’s lost film: “Squirt Gangb@ng”.
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SOURCES:
Dave Gardetta, “The Teenager & the Porn Star” Los Angeles Magazine (2006).
Stephen Heymen, “Grey Matter” New York Times (2011).
PopMatters Staff, “The New Breed: Sasha Grey, Atelecine, and the New Morality” PopMatters (2010).
Rebecca Saunders, “Grey, gonzo and the grotesque: the legacy of porn star Sasha Grey”, Porn Studies, vol. 5 (4) (2018).
Karley Sciortino, “Going Deep with Sasha Grey” Slutever (2014).
Eran Shor & Kimberly Seida, ““Harder and Harder”? Is Mainstream Pornography Becoming Increasingly Violent and Do Viewers Prefer Violent Content?” The Journal of Sex Research (2018).
Brandon Stosuy, “Sasha Grey: Dawn of the Porn Star” The Fanzine (2006).
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| 0:00.0 | Tina Fey Renaissance. |
| 0:01.9 | The Tina Fey Renaissance. |
| 0:25.5 | Yeah. The teenissance. Yeah. So Tina Faye, who I feel like over the past few years has come under scrutiny a bit. Like people are like, oh my God, Tina Faye's racist. They'll like go back and look at her old work like 30 Rock or mean girls or something. It'll be like, Tina Faye's racist, Tina Faye's this, Tina Faye's that. Tina Faye hates women. So she hasn't been like a particularly beloved cultural figure in the past few years. And then she went on Las Culturistas, which is Hannah's faith podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm actually kind of shocked at like the virality of the clip, but it's basically she just went on |
| 0:36.5 | and like kind of poked fun at Emerald Funnel |
| 0:39.0 | in a segment they do called I Don't Think So Honey. And she basically was like saying it's dangerous |
| 0:45.2 | to speak your opinions on things in the industry. But then while she did it like poked fun at |
| 0:50.0 | Emerald Funnel. Yeah, she had a quote where she says authenticity is dangerous and expensive. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, and she's basically just talking about how people being real will not be well liked by history, or at least in like immediate history. Really funnel, funny, really fennel, really funny she dunked on Emerald Fennell. And then girls on Twitter were like, she's a misogynist. This woman hates women because this woman said another woman's art was bad. And it's like, well, her art is bad. And I said last episode that I would not talk about Taylor Swift again. |
| 1:18.2 | Oh my God. But someone pointed out that Tina Faye doesn't support other women thing started with when |
| 1:25.0 | she and Amy Poehler made a joke about Taylor Swift dating lots of men |
| 1:29.0 | at like the Golden Globes or something. And then Taylor Swift later said like there's a special |
| 1:34.1 | place in hell for women that don't support other women. This was like when she was not at her most |
| 1:39.0 | powerful and was sort of her entire thing was just that she was like dating around. And also that she was still quite |
| 1:44.7 | powerful still at the time. Yeah, but it was like like a lot while. I just think that the greatest |
| 1:50.8 | trick to pull is being like, you don't support me because I'm a woman to another woman. I just |
| 1:56.0 | think it's the best way to make yourself completely immune to criticism. But I think that definitely |
| 2:00.3 | set up the narrative |
| 2:01.3 | about Tina Fey. Her work has always been kind of like mean and biting. I'm sure there are |
| 2:07.3 | things she's done that's like actually straight up offensive, but there's a lot of stuff that is... |
| 2:11.9 | A lot of the time I think it's misunderstood. It is misunderstood and I don't know, people just don't |
| 2:17.1 | know how to deal with something that's mean but observational. |
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