I am so thankful for the overwhelmingly positive response to my previous blog post. I had no idea so many people would respond, comment and voice their opinions. Good Vibrations, Violet Blue, Fleshbot , and AAG Blog shared their thoughts and support as well. A dialogue has certainly been started and I think that’s a step in the right direction.
Chris, shared an email he sent to the owner of AVN and included the response. This is pretty great.
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Comment by Chris
I wrote to the owner of AVN and said:
Hi,
My name is Chris and I am very dissatisfied with the words your managing editor decided to use for one of his articles on BBW models and movies. His name is Nelson X. The most offensive thing he said was
that the movies “remind us that the girl-next-door doesn’t look like Jesse Jane and will, indeed, blow any loser for the cost of a Wendy’s Baconator”
I among other people are very angry at his comments. My wife is plus sized and believes that people who say the things that he said are ignorant. I just can’t believe that this even got published. thank you for your time.
Chris
he then replied and said:
Hi-
After some research I agree with you. This was in bad taste. We are changing (stronger) an already announced policy and making it enforcable so this won’t happen again. We have plenty of plus-sized employees and, ironically, the write ris anything but a thin person. We are ensuring that this type of shoddy, distasteful “journalism”
does not happen again.
May we print your letter? And feel free to call me if you’d like to discuss further.
Thanks
Paul Fishbein