Just Back From the Conference
WAC 04 went well. My panel was well-received and someone told me that she rather liked my paper.
When I got to the car rental place, I was expecting a mid-size car, instead they gave me an SUV. I'm not in love with sport-utes -- lower gas mileage, harder to see when backing up, slower acceleration -- but I did make it to St Louis OK. I stayed at the conference hotel, which was nice enough. When I clicked on the TV I noticed that they have pay per view movies (no VHS or DVD option), including a selection of both blockbusters as well as adult entertainment titles. They seem to have to contradictory messages about the cable options. On the one hand, they let you know that you can easily block the adult titles in case you don't want your four year old to stumble on them by accident; on the other hand, they let you know that, on your bill, movies are never identified by title. It reminded me of the recent book by Eric Schlosser in which he points out that pornography is big business, in part, because it is distributed by all the major hotel chains.
On Friday night, the big conference dinner was held inside the St Louis arch. That was a new one for me.
posted by Scott @ 9:46 AM
2 Comments:
glad it went well :)
I realize that different people have different positions on porn, but the act of specifically making it available to customers of your business seems to be complicit, as you point out. If I owned, say, a sports arena, and allowed alcohol to be served, that would be a pretty good indication that either I felt that alcohol consumption was ok or that I was hypocritical, even if I provided various safeguards and so forth.
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