SuicideGirls.com Has Become Large Feminist Subculture

[matcom]

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The woman onscreen is nearly naked, with a bashful grin and half her body screaming with tattoos. She lets out a sigh under the buzz of her boyfriend's tattoo gun, and pops a sedative. She is Adahlia Suicide, a 22-year-old Oakland woman who has recently joined SuicideGirls.com.

"I needed the cash," she says flatly over drinks in her new apartment, referring to the hefty check the site cuts for its models.

Launched four years ago as a meeting place for punk "girls" in their 20s and 30s with tattoos and piercings, SuicideGirls.com has become a large feminist subculture meant to counter the big-boobs-no-brain standard of beauty -- all by posting nude Goth girls online. Some join for the sex between members, others for the online journals. Almost all SuicideGirls define the site's purpose differently -- as an activist platform, a porn site, a networking space -- agreeing only that it has huge party potential. Each model -- there are now 752, with a new one added daily -- adopts the last name "Suicide" as a member of the site's extended alterna-fem family.

"SuicideGirls are all about fighting the ridiculous Playboy Size-3 stereotype," Adahlia says, adding that each SuicideGirl, from the lanky to the plump, has more than her share of unique blemishes.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/07/DDGGAEI66C27.DTL

[underpants]

1. I went to that site once

Once

big-boobs-no-brain on my computer thank you

[jane_pippin]

2. A few of my friends are thinking of doing that, actually.

They're artsy, punky, feminist godesses, so more power to 'em.

[billyskank]

3. Isn't our own GirlinContempt one of those?

I seem to remember her posting about it anyway.

[Heidi]

8. Where IS GirlinContempt, anyway? (nt)

[billyskank]

9. She popped in to say hi yesterday or the day before

and said she would be spending more time around here, but I haven't seen her since. She's very busy, although I don't know what it is that she does.

[WCGreen]

4. I saw it on Reel Sex on HBO....

I was, well fankly I was, how can I say this, TURNED ON......

[DS1]

11. Yes, their plan totally didn't work

it just changed my tastes a little

[Rising Phoenix]

5. I love that web site...

I have a book too... its great!

[Richardo]

6. I've seen the book

I never thought I was into the whole piercing/tatoo thing, but them womens is SEKSHY. :9

[Fleshdancer]

7. I saw one of their burlesque shows a few years ago

a group of them tour around doing burlesque...well they did, I don't know if they still do. It was interesting.

[Rising Phoenix]

12. I've always wanted to see one of their shows...

[SarahB]

10. Cool site.

My ex-husband was really into it for awhile. He said, "All the women in mainstream porn look too much like you and I'm trying to avoid that." Which is funny because I'm far from being a size 3.

I would say though that there's some hot women there for sure and beauty does come in many forms. I was looking at the site a few weeks ago and there was this one women that made me go "hello!"

However, my only comment is that just because a woman is blonde and/or has big boobs doesn't mean she's stupid or fake.