The most offensive things about Matt Smith's Kink.com column

Damn, I was just going to make the same joke about this.

Congratulations mr. wachs! Your narrow-minded diatribe has given insecure bullies all over the world new hope that they can grow up to be a big shot journalist like you, so long as they trade in their integrity for well-worn wit and their humanity for thinly veiled bigotry.

You think you have us all figured out, don't you. You think that your second-rate top ten list will somehow make us all stop and realize how ridiculously 'liberal' we were being when we protested the public vilification of our lifestyle by a member of the press? Well in order to get through to me, or likely ANYONE for that matter, I recommend you stop worrying about your poor friend mr. smith, and spend some time relearning the basic tenets of journalism. Or have we lost yet another would-be, could-be thinker to the seductive siren call of his own ego?

I agree that Matt Smith might have got it worse than he deserved, but that doesn't change the fact that you're defending his intolerance and celebrating his ignorance. Both of you exhibit such an amazing ability to over-simplify and intentionally antagonize. In all honesty, you do our community more good than harm by associating yourselves with such simplistic thinking.

how do i offend thee?
let me count the ways I could care less.

Jesus Christ. Don't you people have anything better to do? This is about 3000% more worthless than the article Smith wrote. There's a reason the newspaper industry is dying; you people are lazy. Engaging in inane back biting, name calling and tattle tailing may be juvenile but it most certainly is not journalism. May your idiotic rag die soon and save some trees for the good people of San Francisco to hug.

I came across your article on Yahoo and thought; “maybe someone from the Weekly is finally going to apologize.” Instead, there is continued sarcasm, and just plain poor journalism. I don’t know if you read the comments carefully, but the focus of many of them was that Mr. Smith chose to write his piece as an editorial, and then couch it as investigative journalism. If he wishes to makes accusations about a company or a community, he should at a minimum do interviews with the individuals involved. I don’t really understand the article you wrote, other than a continued desperate attempt by the weekly to justify Mr. Smith's poor journalism and to attempt to defend the weekly against attacks stating it is a poorly written and edited paper that lacks journalistic integrity.

Excellent piece! Damned touchy liberals with their victim playing and sarcasm hating. Poor Matt! Everyone's mad at him and it's so unfair.

Spot on in every case, Mr. Wachs, though I see there are still plenty of folks who want to name-call and insult without addressing the core issue at hand.

What is that issue? Kink.com's deliberate scam of ETP. They knew going in that porn producers weren't allowed to receive subsidized training, but rather than come clean about their mistake, they'd rather pretend outrage and direct people away from their misdeed.

When Kink apologizes for gaming the system and returns the money they accepted, then SF Weekly ought to consider apologizing for the biting tone of Matt Smith's piece. But until that happens....

#6, by scam you mean taking 184 hours of course work even though you don't really actually perform any multmedia and film work?

Read:Matt Smith.

OR-I don't know the kink employees who DID recieve the training who have gone on to make a meaningful(non-pornographic) documentary that is up for a prestigious award.

Did you read THAT anywhere in the actual article?because that was the real story that was -completely- ignored by matt smith and the SF Weekly.

Fact is that you're just wrong and the SF weekly is wrong and you've given all the strip clubs that give you money a reason to stop advertising with you.

I am not a pornographer. I am not an employee of kink.com. I am a community member who feels strongly that you intentionally misinformed people for the purposes of inciting hatred against the BDSM and adult industry community.

It's called consent, for fuck's sake. Consent, consent, consent. Comparing consensual S/M sex to Abu Ghraib torture is no different from the BS arguments anti-gay activists make when they compare sex between consenting (gay) adults to bestiality or pedophilia. It's fucking ignorant.

I've been a happy patron of the SF Weekly for years, but this is beneath you guys. You're way off base here.

I applaud Matt Smiths article. It's real. That money belongs somewhere else. Sex positive give me a break. Yeah obviously all the abuse and degradation and rape in the world find some cathartic or maybe furthering place that's the only reason this stuff exists.