Y ou know what they say: “Looking at your grades, Memet, have you considered adult film?”
Ugh, advisers can be so judgmental. But one Duke University freshman in particular is revealing just how vicious and cruel we can really get.
Unless you’ve been living under a deleted browser history on my computer for the past two weeks, you’ve probably already heard of “Belle Knox.” She’s the 18-year-old women’s studies and sociology major by day and triple-X porn star by cost of higher education.
Naturally, people have been giving her a hard time since her IMDB credits were leaked. But to paraphrase Hamlet, methinks her detractors doth wack off too much!
Where does one even begin to reason with the critics? The fact that she’s a woman, free to make her own choices with her body? Her right to pay for her schooling the way she sees fit, without saddling herself with crippling debt? Her brilliant performance in “No, REALLY Inside Llewyn Davis.”
One News & Observer story led with the haughty, “When ‘Duke’ and ‘porn star’ appear in the same headline, the university gets a public relations headache .”
Really? Because it makes me regret not going.
I expect the older crowd to discriminate against her. They didn’t grow up around and go to school with porn star kids like we did.
But young people hating on her? Whether or not you want to call her a hero is one thing. To me, the real heroes are the film crew. But is she really doing anything that bad? Sex is something most of us participate in, if not aspire to.
