Honestly IME adults are the fucking worst. The worst flights I’ve spent have always involved entitled asshole adults being rude and annoying. And adults seem to be the ones that start fights after being asked to stop doing something, I’ve never had a 7 year old curse me out or threaten me for asking them to put their…

I effectively quit commenting on kinja weeks ago, but I’m reactivating my account real fast because I love Samantha Irby just that much. This book was everything Panama Jackson described it as and more, please do yourself a favor and buy all her books.

Right, but La Croix water is named after the area in Wisconsin it originated from, which is pronounced “La Croy”. It’s not French, so it shouldn’t be pronounced as a French name. I mean, do you pronounce “Detroit” as “Dey-Twa”?

something special about sex that makes it different than, say, carpentry or waitressing.

Sex work wouldn’t exist without female necessity, poverty, and desperation.

Exploitation of workers in other industries keeps being brought up but there is a blindspot to how these same inequalities can cause problems when the literal product is a woman’s body.

I wasn’t trying to make a direct 1:1 comparison, just trying to say that a lot of what we consider dangerous has more to do with what we think about it then actual danger. Getting into a car is one of the most dangerous things we do, and yet we all do it everyday and think nothing of it. Knowing men is dangerous, but…

No, I don’t think there is. The difference is we’ve normalized the one risk as something socially acceptable (to the point that you are stigmatized if you opt out) and we haven’t done so with the other. More than half of female murder victims last year were killed by their partners or family members.

I’ve yet to find an industry that doesn’t devalue people, particularly women. Why is selling your body for the sexual pleasure of others more devaluing than selling your body for the non-sexual pleasure of others? What makes sex different than any other kind of bodily function, say wearing out your knee lifting heavy…

I don’t believe it’s safe, but I don’t believe any job is ever fully safe. We all take risks, we just like to rationalize that our risks are sane and good choices and other people’s risks demonstrate poor judgment.

I mean, statistically speaking she’s more likely to be harmed by the baby’s father than a client.

Being with a man ever at all is dangerous. Statistically speaking she is far more likely to be abused by the baby’s father than a client.

Acting like sex work is a great, feminist life pursuit no more exploitive than working at mcdonalds is a lie

I guess prostitution is the same. Someone is getting paid for something that the customer could get for free if they weren’t as lazy, or inhibited.

I know a lot of women who have been sexually assaulted, none of them were prostitutes. Knowing what happens to women who are around men ever for any reason at all, why do you believe prostitution to be inherently unsafe?

Why shouldn’t she have a career that she likes and finds fulfilling? Honestly that’s more than I can say about most of my working life. Are you also against celebrating women who work in other parts of the service industry, such as waiting tables or retail? You sell your body and your sanity in a lot of careers, but…

It absolutely does

With college entry being a bit more competitive, they focus on that.

It’s interesting you mention the 17 year olds, because in my area I feel it’s actually going the opposite way. I’m in grad school for teaching and I have well over a decade of child care experience, and I’m babysitting to help pay bills as are many of my classmates. I often feel guilty for taking jobs from teens, not…

you had me dead @ “rehomed” omg