Letters to the Editor
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What's the connection between her liking spanking and domestic violence?
I am sorry, I don't get the connection between her enjoyment of spanking and domestic violence.
Am I confused here?
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A question for ガガ ガガ ガガ
ガガ ガガ ガガ,
I mean this in the most non-confrontational way. I'm just curious - do you have a job that requires you to read every article at Salon as soon as it's posted? I mean you have the first post on many, many articles. Is someone paying you to read Salon all day?
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Just coincidence and having a nice RSS reader.
So actually it's just coincidence because today I've been in and out of meetings most of the day.
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Judgmental Journalist v. Naive Student--who do you dislike more?
The law student was a bit tacky and naive considering our society's prurient, juvenile, faux-astonishment when cofronted with nudity or sexuality (particularly from a woman who's supposed to be intelligent).
The poor girl should have known better, but the fact that this incident will follow her and negatively affect her career says more about our society than it does about her. It also says a lot about the sad state of relationships among woman that this journalist was so happy to jump on the judgmental bandwagon. Welcome to sisterhood--this woman seems all too eager to enforce nonsensical social judgments.
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Wise gal
I question Ms Price's own respect for the sexual proclivities of other humans. Who cares how much spanking goes on in Adriana Dominguez's head -- why is your tenor so dismissive, and as one posted noted, there is no connection between spanking and domestic abuse except in your own bigoted head?
Perhaps unwise, but I think she should be able to get past this. The tenor here at Salon in general has become very tsk-tsky, whether it be railing against Imus or speaking down to the wacky antics of young law students: Salon and its marms maybe ought to climb down for the soapbox.
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I believe that this act will have career-long effects
Simply, I see the real problem as "this silly act will affect her career".
Regardless of whether as a lawyer she ends up on a prosecution or defense team, her acumen and reputation risks being impugned constantly by this act ("aren't you the Playboy gal?")
Total lack of forward thinking (or common sense?) on her point.
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Pardon?
"if you work for the domestic-violence unit, it's probably not the best idea to announce in a nude video that you like getting spanked"
As someone who escaped domestic violence, I'd also like to know how spanking for sexual pleasure and domestic violence go hand in hand. Because if they do, I'm left wondering...since I like an occasional spank in the bedroom now, does that mean I enjoyed having the snot beat out of me by my ex?
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just a thought
We can argue until we're all blue in the face about what is and what ought to be, about societal mores and how unfair life can be.
And when we're done, choosing to bare our breasts (or other interesting bits) in an online video is still a very dumb choice with very real consequences.
Meanwhile, we can keep arguing whether or not it's fair, or we can begin to exercise a bit of judgment and maturity in our lives without actually becoming right-wing fanatical TV preachers.
Remember when the privacy of our bedroom with someone we love and trust was where we chose to share our fantasies?
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Since when is the body a bad thing? (since a long time, actually)
Sexual spanking is a consensual form of play that tons of people enjoy. Domestic violence (I always hated that term - sounds like my house is acting up) is the opposite of consensual. Surely surely the writer must know this.
And why would actually having/showing a woman's body need to affect a lawyer's career? Is it a crime to dance around a movie screen unadorned? OK, if she was trying to get a job with, say, John Ashcroft, it would probably be counter-productive.
But what I really want to ask is, since when has Salon become a cheerleader for those who would hide away women's breasts under threat, or conflate sexual play with brutality? This is the last attitude one would hope to find on Broadsheet. Remember the abc's of feminism in 1970? Would a male lawyer become unemployable if he showed his nipples on celluloid?
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Lack of common sense
Echoing an earlier letter, this law student showed an extreme lack of common sense.
Is it fair that one act of extreme stupidity might haunt her entire career? Maybe not.
But if you were hiring an attorney, or hiring a staff attorney for your law firm, you'd probably think twice about selecting this particular individual.
Nobody wants to be represented by a stupid lawyer.
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How does this show bad character?
The sexy stunt could have dire consequences for the would-be lawyer.
If she applies for the New York State Bar this year, Dominguez could face tough questions from the Committee on Character and Fitness, which examines the personal character of future lawyers.
"It may have an effect. It's a possibility in the worst-case scenario that the person does not get admitted," a committee representative said.
Oh jeez, I certainly hope she doesn't get admitted. Can you imagine the sexual discrimination lawsuit?
She is employed for a legal activity and somehow that shows she has bad character?
Who has worse character, a lawyer that strips naked or lawyers that allow their system to fuck you over?
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There was a Playboy playmate in my law school class
Her name was Victoria Zdroyk (sp?) and she posed for Playboy during her second or third year in the late 1990s. Not sure if she practiced law at all, but I think she has a website (don't they all? ;))
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You would have to be an idiot not to let Ms. Zdrok represent you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Zdrok
Dr. Zdrok graduated from Pensacola Junior College in Florida at age 17 and West Chester University in Pennsylvania at age 18 with a B.A., Summa Cum Laude. She entered graduate school where she studied for a joint law and psychology program at Villanova University and Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her J.D. degree at the Law School and a subsequent M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Her dissertation on "The Effect of Judicial Instructions on Jury Perception of Defendants' Refusal to Testify" was recommended for the Law Psychology Awards. She aimed to specialize in the "area where law and psychology intersect" and originally intended to become a jury consultant. She passed the bar exam on her first try.
Apparently always a good student - graduating from jr. college at 17 with a doctorate and even after that going on to get a BA, JD, MA, a PH.D, and a 36C.