I'm a West Coast stripper and I can attest to this. Fleet week is often one of the best money weekends of the entire year. Dudes who haven't seen women in however many weeks, have tons of cash, and are ready to blow off steam and party. It's the tits, so hearing it was canceled this year was a HUGE disappointment…

THANK. YOU.
I've been posting pretty much this exact message on every article about "comfort women" that I come across.

Again with the generalizations. "Nobody would want that life for any woman they care about." Do you think my mom and sister would prefer to see me slaving away for minimum wage at a fast food restaurant or pulling in a few grand a week for 15 hours of work? Don't speak for others, it's pompous and adds nothing but…

Thank. You.

Yes, THIS. I'm a stripper, and I don't want kids. But if I did, I would probably prefer them not to be strippers. Not because it's a shameful or disgusting or pitiful job or I don't love what I do, but because it's HARD work and the pole gymnastics I do have taken a toll on my body, namely my joints. If I worked…

Since when is "living like an animal, and using drugs with dirty needles and not using protection" inherent of stripping? I think you're confusing sex work with being an irresponsible drug addict. Fun fact: one is a job, another is a terrible sad lifestyle.

Yep, I remember reading (I think it was in Half the Sky) that it would cost about 14 million dollars to iodize all the food-grade salt in the world, which would collectively raise the IQs of prenatal children by 10 points, which would have a HUGE beneficial effect on poverty in developing countries.

I know nothing about him as a person, other than reading about his "nazi gaffe" which is of course inexcusable. However, I found Melancholia to be a profoundly important film, at least for someone like me who has suffered from severe depression for 12 years. That film was my favorite of the year, for so many…

The sound of white people getting angry about being told what to do is deafening in here.

"Me me me me me me me me me."

So as long as a woman has sex for reasons pre-approved by your objective judgement, she's not a slut? That sounds like the definition of slut-shaming.

Yeah, just as cis-men get to tell pregnant women what to do with their bodies and white people can explain racism to people of color, non-sex workers are totally allowed to make fools of themselves by sharing them ill-informed opinions on sex work and act like they know everything because they've seen Pretty Woman and…

You sound like a deeply unhappy person. You put so much energy and focus into what other people do for a living while being completely uninformed and ignorant of their actual motives. I wonder if you've ever spoken to another human being without feeling immense an fear of the same judgement you dispense behind the…

As a sex worker, I think you should shut the fuck up until you know what you're talking about, which, in this case, you don't.

Oh shit, beat me to it.

Ummm. This whole situation is straight out of a Mr. Show sketch that premiered like 15 years ago. You know what they say about truth and fiction....

So no one's going to point out that Mykki Blanco used a trans* slur? Tr***y is a really offensive term.

If it's from sleep, know that it's probably not permanent. Try adjusting your diet to more fresh produce, and drinking lots of water. But also be sure to wear sunblock on your chest whenever you leave the house in a lower-cut shirt that shows your upper chest. I carry sunscreen in my purse so if I don't have time…

Hey I have an idea! Let's figure out which Hollywood actress is currently the most unbalanced, insecure, and potentially mentally ill and then every time she does anything atypical we can mock her on the internet! It's a perfect plan, I mean what could go wrong?

*horribly