well golly, if we're going to speak like "have you ever met a basic, stereotypical, completely bland and regurgitated idea of a human being before??" as the basis for imagining how and why ms. halas received the punishment that she did, we might as well analyze the other side of the table too.
i find it laughably naive that "a judge" or any goddamn person could truly think ms. halas omitting her prior porn history was her being deceitful. if you are 25 years old, have an established history/career at a former company, and are choosing to transfer to a different company that gladly accepts your current skill set, would you really feel it necessary to include in your resume that you flipped burgers for a summer at mcdonald's while you were in high school? no. that could be close to ten years ago, and such a tid-bit of "work experience" has absolutely no relevance in your current job venture. your employer knowing you could make a number 7 better than anyone would be as important as knowing you learned how to tie your shoes all by yourself.
the only reason she was colored as "deceitful" or truly felt embarrassment over her prior porn history is because of people like our knight in glistening moral armor, j7r. clearly, it does not matter how ms. halas viewed her momentary dip into the porn industry. clearly, her decision to dive into sucking dick for money is the single defining moment of her life, and the fact that she soared upward into a college education and reputable teaching career is completely invalidated because she didn't mind getting fucked on camera for money.
i have no idea what you have personally done with your life, j7r, to think yourself immeasurably more respectable and automatically a better role model than ms. halas because you would never allow your private sexual business to be filmed on camera, but i assume it's next to nothing. the glaring hole in your logic, and anyone else who believes ms. halas should have acted otherwise before she dropped her panties on set, is that you believe "society" is this giant entity of thought and morality that cannot, or will not change. society is a conglomeration of human beings, just like me, just like any of you, and your adamant belief that ms. halas is immoral, or, you know, a bad role model for making one bad(HOLY SHIT THOUGH, BAD IS SUBJECTIVE, JUST REMEMBER THIS FOR A SECOND) decision in her life, is ridiculous. utterly, insurmountably ridiculous.
j7r, it is painfully clear that you have an issue with other people enjoying/expressing their sexuality, or keeping it as private/public as they like, compared to your personal feelings on the matter. totally cool, home skillet. you raise your freak-flag high, or keep it tightly wound and bound, completely secret from the rest of us. regardless of how you manage your business, you have absolutely zero ground to judge someone else because they choose to manage their business otherwise. you don't judge ms. halas because she chose to make a bad decision involving sex? why are you clutching such a lie so tightly to your chest? you have gone back and forth with your wording and argument umpteen times, first claiming she's a person who lacks all self-respect, is an idiot for performing in porn, a no-good tramp who, should she have a definition in webster's dictionary, should be as far away from "role model" as possible.
then, annoyed that you're being labeled a misogynistic twat, you claim "but she was deceitful! she lied on her application! she did not relinquish the delicious, juicy gossip about her porn history! clearly, she is a human being that cannot accept her past decisions, and is not fit to teach young students! also, ignoring the fact she did porn at all, she lied to ME, her TAX PAYER, and considering money is the holy grail and i am her GOD, allowing her to SIP FROM THIS GRAIL, she is a bad person!!" forgive me for embellishing my interpretation of what you've said over and over again. say it a few more times, and you might as well own 50 cats and be talking to a corner in your basement.
society's biggest problem is that those who think contrarily to the norm are sooner taught to duck their heads and follow the herd than stand up for what they believe in, and act on their own beliefs and hearts. if i were your father, j7r, i would be ashamed to see your clear disdain for ms. halas, or a mr. halas, or anyone at all who was once involved in the porn industry. i would be baffled that my own son, a homosexual male, probably enduring his own hardships for something he cannot control (and wait right there, of course you can control your pornographic history……….) and being helplessly teased or demonized for it (because that is the reaction you cannot control, regardless of how you feel about your own sexuality. see the parallel?) would believe that ms. halas has any less ground or right to be a role model than you yourself do.
this isn't about porn being bad. this isn't about making bad decisions. this is a tale about one woman having every reason dug up from a bible, tabloid, or tv show from society for why she can never amount to anything other than being a porn star. this is about society's uncontrollable urge to be ashamed of their sexuality, however it may be expressed. if her students should be taught anything, it's to be proud of their past, no-fucking-matter-what, because it is only the present that ever matters. how they arrived, where they plan to go next, they are irrelevant. the present is now. her teaching career used to be now, until her gossiping coworkers and stigma-ridden society condemned her for acts she hadn't committed in seven years, with absolutely no regard for how their actions may affect her future.
if one day my 18 year old daughter takes me out to lunch and says "mom, I'm considering doing porn… what do you think?" I will probably be surprised. I'll probably wonder what's going on in her life that I may not know about, that leads her to consider starring in pornography for money. or, maybe it's pleasure? maybe she's a fucking nymphomaniac, and this is her idea of a profitable good time? if my daughter is honest with me about what she wants to do, then fine. go get it, girl. do what you want, JUST MAKE SURE:
1) you understand the risks, both emotional and physical.
2) you keep yourself safe, and have an exit strategy should you require one.
but that's basically it. my personal feelings may influence my children, but they will never, ever define them. so should society relinquish its inadvertent, awful hold on any singular human being who is inspired to act out against the norm.
ps: it dawned on me again after seeing the bolded, quoted part in ninahaza's post, that if you think starring in pornography is the "lowest line of work," then you are clinically retarded. oh yeah, getting a dick shoved in my vagina on camera is farrrrr worse than say, owning a company where immigrants are paid pennies to sew clothing for hours on end, or maybe slaughtering animals for the fur industry, or oh oh, having any part in illegal gun trafficking. i mean, fuck, let's just consider for a fact that there are countless other ILLEGAL occupations that people the world over profit from, but those are just nowhere near as bad as catching a cum shot on screen. holy shit, someone inform the president, pornography is literally the 7th level of hell caught on tape!
