Originally Posted by
Sanlmar
I listened to the Jenni Lee segment
I listened intently for a point to be made. I might have missed it.
My take was that it was just a gratuitous riff on her rapid fall into hard times complete with the excruciatingly detailed description of her before and after appearance. Titilating joy over the destruction of a life.
Having recently personally experienced how capricious mental health can be I would have expected more empathy from Druff.
The lure of life in Vegas as a pro is dangerous for those without the mettle? Protect yourself from treacherous environments if you aren’t gritty enough? Drugs suck? Mental health is a roulette wheel? Pick any number of takes.
I’m probably just becoming a sensitive liberal.
My show isn't Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The segments aren't always meant to have a point or a lesson. Sometimes it's just the radio equivalent of gawking at a traffic accident.
This was interesting simply because it was a once-hot porn star who ended up in the infamous tunnels of Vegas. Plus it had a small poker angle to it, because she played poker at one time, apparently. This also didn't appear to be mental illness related. As I mentioned on radio, she sounded completely normal, and if you only listened to the audio of her interview, she'd appear quite together and coherent (if you ignore that she's glorifying living in a Vegas storm tunnel.)
No doubt she was probably exploited somewhat by the shifty porn industry, but that comes with the territory of working in it. Few girls enter porn believing that their bosses are going to be caring, salt-of-the-earth human beings. The bottom line is that she was doing well for awhile, and then let drugs destroy both her finances and looks. Not something to be celebrated, and I wasn't gleefully telling the story. However, it's a story nonetheless, and I thought it was worth telling.
And speaking of empathy, notice that I was one of the few defending her choice NOT to take the help offered to her 2 weeks ago, where she could have had a private home and all other kinds of assistance, for nothing in return. She chose not to accept it because she didn't want to abandon her "street boyfriend", who was refused the same offer. I stated that this actually made sense, and showed a lot of loyalty on her part. She recognized that the supposedly humanitarian act of offering "help" was simply the act of some pseuo-empathetic masturbator, who wanted the thrill of getting credit for getting the fallen porn star back on her feet. He didn't care about her -- only that he could be part of the story. When she asked if her boyfriend could be part of the package, the guy refused. You know... because who cares about a homeless dude? Only women you used to jerk your meat to are deserving of help. So she rejected it, basically saying, "If you're trying to do a good deed here, help both of us. Otherwise GTFO." Showed a lot of character, actually. The callous man would have chided her for refusing the seemingly generous offer. I actually understood.