Ok, so we don’t care about the lives of millions of brown people living in squalor.

What then, pray tell, do we as a society really care about?

This:

The Teen Mom Sex Tape Is the Rare Porn Targeted at Young Women

I haven’t watched Backdoor Teen Mom, the 70-minute pornographic film starring MTV Teen Mom reality star Farrah Abraham and porn star James Deen that was released by Vivid Entertainment this week. But I’ve been following the media narrative around the video obsessively, and the reports spurting out of TMZ play like a whodunit of sexual shaming: Who can be blamed for this porn they all made?

Here’s what happened: Abraham approached the adult entertainment company Vivid to make a porn flick. They arranged to present the flick as a leaked sex tape; they’d pretend the male actor was Abraham’s boyfriend. But after the tape was “leaked,” James Deen, the male lead, refused to lie. When asked, he confirmed he and Abraham were not dating. Abraham retaliated by telling tabloids that Deen “does not respect women” and adding, of his penis: “I haven’t seen many, but his is definitely not big.” When he failed to respond in kind—his demonstrably enormous penis speaks for itself—Abraham announced that she had received a “threatening” email from a person claiming to be Deen. (It was not). Upon the film’s release, Abraham tweeted, “I can’t believe the one time I have sex in the past year has turned in to this #UNREAL,” then retweeted a stream of positive reviews from viewers. The actress reportedly earned six figures for her pornographic and tabloid performances.

The interesting thing about this inane story is the audience for the tabloid plotline and the accompanying video. Backdoor Teen Mom is the rare mainstream porn flick targeted at young women, the group that composes the fandoms of both James Deen and Teen Mom. (As Deen revealed in an interview this week, the film was also directed by a woman). Its target viewers are even more interested in the fraught sexual context of the film than they are its actual sexual content.

Young women may not typically buy porn—on the Internet, they don’t have to—but they’re more socially invested in it than any other group of viewers. On the constantly refreshing hive mind that is the James Deen Tumblr tag, fans trade Deen quotes, fully-clothed photos, and industry gossip as frequently as they do actual porn clips. […]

I pity the young men today who have to date young women who have been programmed into thinking porn stars are the average male.

This Farrah Abraham thing seems to be the hot thing today in the fast paced world of social media. No wonder my Pages of boring old climatology don’t get the hits they used to.