No fans at Schoolies: Bonnie’s got the blues
Let’s reimagine this scenario if her name was Benjamin Blue and this ‘creator’ was looking to bed as many just-turned-18 girls as possible. It wouldn’t get up, writes Ann Wason Moore.
I don’t think we really need to ban Bonnie Blue.
That’s not to say I don’t want the government to ban the OnlyFans creator.
After all, let’s reimagine this scenario if her name was Benjamin Blue … and this ‘creator’ was looking to bed as many just-turned-18 girls as possible.
Actually, we can just turn back time to the late 90s/early 00s adult franchise ‘Girls Gone Wild’, in which ‘barely legal’ college students were persuaded to take off their clothes, engage in sexual activities and participate in wet T-shirt contests with the promise of a free hat, T-shirt, or money.
All of this frequently occurred during spring break – an academic holiday period where students party hard – very similar to Schoolies itself.
Similarly, Bonnie Blue wants to visit the Gold Coast’s Schoolies Festival to feed off the youth and fatten her profile – and wallet – as an OnlyFans creator.
The whole point of her ploy is that this is technically legal, even if ethically disgusting.
It’s all about the controversy.
While Bonnie Blue is not promising any sort of payment – other than the opportunity for immortality as a picture of immorality – she clearly believes the lure of 15 seconds of fame will be enough.
And that’s where I’d like to believe she’s wrong.
Now, I’m not claiming that Australian Gen Z males are moral angels, far from it, but I just don’t think this is what turns them on.
Indeed, a quick survey of ‘legal’ teens corroborates my theory … they are grossed out by Bonnie Blue.
Given many of these males will be in attendance at Schoolies in Surfers Paradise in just a few short weeks, it looks like Ms Blue might be left to her own devices even if she makes it past the border.
One young man explained the aversion: “No one wants to sleep with some random who we know has slept with literally thousands of people – and no one wants to be filmed having sex and have it on the internet. At all. With anyone”.
“No one even cares if she’s there, she tried last year and she’ll probably try again. I know parents get all worried but there’s nothing to even worry about because I can’t think of anyone who would do that.
“Schoolies is just about hanging out with your friends and partying. No one wants to hook up with her, and anyone who did would low-key cop it.”
It raises an interesting point, that this sort of sexploitation is not just degrading for women but men as well.
Now Ms Blue insists her sex videos are not personally degrading, and that’s fine … even if I find her defence a little bit sad.
“Everyone says my brain works different. I’m just not emotional,” she says in her documentary.
“I can control my emotions. If I don’t want to get upset, I won’t get upset.”
Unfortunately, her actions are still degrading to women as a collective, adding to the view already held by many in the manosphere that women are ‘less than’, an object rather than a real person.
Indeed, as one commentator said of Ms Blue’s documentary: “The men lining up to be the 20th or 60th person to penetrate a stranger … have been granted barely a glancing thought. The intentions and morals of these men were not of interest, because … it’s normal!”
“Normal to take sex when it’s offered, normal to commodify the body of a woman.”
However, some might argue that her actions show men in a similar light – that her sexual partners become merely a number rather than an actual human.
And that’s precisely why it’s degrading to all.
Well, perhaps we can thank Ms Blue for one thing … at last achieving true gender equality.
Pity it’s in terms of degradation.
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