People make this accusation a lot but I've never seen anything to back it up. Even googling "dworkin transphobic" the closest thing that comes up is articles saying that since she had a professional relationship with janice raymond and didn't go on an all out offensive against her she was somehow implicitly condoning…

Stunning analysis right there. Tell me, did you learn all your history from cold war propaganda and the backs of cereal boxes?

No. Zie was not a social democrat, but, you know, as the last words zie spoke tried to make clear, a revolutionary communist. WWP is a Marxist-Leninist organization that supports all those struggling for liberation against imperialism. The world zie and others like her are fighting for a is a far cry from what…

"More evidence that the Western Europeanisation of Eastern Europe is hitting some major roadblocks for progress on social issues."

This is some seriously offensive shit. The sheer and complete ignorance of the region in question makes this analysis so naive and wrong that it's hard to know where to start to correct it, but a realization that Lithuania is its own country with its own goals, history, and narrative and not just some stealth…

My point is that I disagree that it would be more difficult to traffic sex workers if their profession were legal. The majority of human trafficking in the world today is actually not sex, but labor trafficking. This is despite the work these people are forced to do being entirely legal.

I see this argument so much: that if prostitution were brought above ground and made legal it would eliminate the abuses, the trafficking and the exploitation that goes along with it. It speaks to an incredibly narrow middle-class view of the world and the market where regulations and laws can make an industry fair…

Maybe instead you should get rid of your porn and examine your life so that your daughter doesn't have to grow up with a father who loves objectifying women more than he loves her.

now where's hermoinestranger to tell us how we need to respect this girl's choice and agency in choosing to prostitute herself and make the best of her situation?

lol at your rape apologism which thinks a 13 year old child can consent to prostitution. Do you not see that this same logic about "helping their family make ends meet" is the same rightwing justification that supports child labor and poverty wages worldwide on the labor spectrum? That the same logic about them…

I can see what you're saying, but presumably you wanted some kind of feedback or discussion about your feelings since you posted about them.

Except you seemed to be presenting your personal experience as a counterpoint to the article, when in fact it's a perfect example of what the article is talking about: that women often choose to date taller men and men choose to date shorter women because of ingrained notions of femininity and masculinity that men and…

No one is invalidating your feelings, they're just calling them what they are.

Because sex workers may have been forced or coerced into that status by any number of circumstances beyond their control, and it's counterproductive to lock up people you are ostensibly trying to help.

Uh... what? I guess I should have known even mentioning UHC would summon up some libertarian to argue with me. But it's actually been pretty successful both at lowering costs and providing quality care in the following places: pretty much every first world country except the US.

Which, for those who oppose prostitution, is a good thing.

The point is that prosecution focuses on the johns, not the sex workers.

Actually, it's perfectly coherent to support access to abortion while opposing 'the abortion industry', at least in the sense of those who profit from medical procedures. It's called supporting Universal Health Care, and used to even be a pretty popular idea...

It was one of the biggest shocks in my life when I learned that some men actually try to convince women that blue balls are a real thing. I had always assumed it was just a stupid joke that everyone was in on.

Kids are not rational actors who think through the meaning or consequence of what they are saying. For more information you can refer to some of the more fascinating research done in this area, I'm thinking specifically "Kids Say The Darndest Things" Cosby, Bill would be a good start.