Decriminalization DOES work in many ways. Also, I think you need to learn about correlation and causation and how they aren’t the same thing.

I’m a feminist and a sex worker. You don’t speak for me.

and yet a lot of UK sex workers actively fight Object’s proposals, because the Swedish method has led to the deaths of sex workers.

Only problem sex workers don’t want the Swedish model in place. Naturally you don’t give a fuck because you care about your precious women’s rights and don’t care about what sex workers are saying.

The Netherlands did not do everything right and their model of legislation around sex work is NOT supported by actual sex workers, just people outside the industry who don’t actually know (or care) what it takes to create a system in which sex workers are safest. They should try listening to us. Weird how that always…

Like, I am 100% pro-choice, yet I can still be horrified by forced abortions! Because CONSENT, hooray!

Yeah. What I always find myself coming back to is, if there’s a single mom of 3 somewhere who has a choice between (a) working (legally and safely) in a brothel five day shifts a week, or (b) working four day shifts at a supermarket plus three night shifts for a cleaning company for the same or lesser pay..... I just…

What I don’t get is the ‘women shouldn’t be forced to sell their bodies so they can live’ thing. Personally I feel like people shouldn’t have to break their bodies working mines so they can live, or have to deal with the shit that is Walmart so they can live, but I’m under no delusions that banning either job would…

I am working autonomously and willingly, somewhere in the mid range of the industry. I need some extra money right now, and I prefer doing this to the other levels of job I’d qualify for, in which I’d be working longer hours on more shifts, for about the same pay.

Firstly: Please change the word Prostitute to Sex Worker. Prositute is a slur. Sex Worker is used for scientific accuracy and an respect, by the UN, WHO many governments, and basically anyone who is’t anti-sex work or whorephobic.

“How does this do X?” and “Why would they want X?”

“...Vili Fualaau, meanwhile, discusses his bouts with alcoholism, depression and why he believes the system failed him while he was still a minor.”

I think she gets to call HER cancer whatever she likes. She doesn’t owe to other people to be sick the way they approve. She has her experience,your friend has hers,other people have theirs. And talking about HER experience doesn’t in no way makes her responsible for other people expectations or their lack of empathy.

Yeah, I understand how her way of talking about it would be really upsetting to people who are more in danger for any reason — my personal view on the issue is that however people manage their own shit, particularly when it comes to something like cancer, is good for them. If it’s good for her to be dismissive of…

I’m just gonna leave this here. And here. And also here. Jon Stewart was allowed to grow into the dude he is today because of this show, so it behooves me to allow other comedians the same path. But I’m sleep...

I read the old Twitter jokes and they were... disappointing. But people can grow and change and it sounds like he’s moved on from that kind of “comedy.” I wish him well in his new tenure on the Daily Show. He’s got some very, very large shoes to fill.

I've been told that I'm not really a Star Wars/Star Trek nerd, because I'm female and not looking anything like the stereotype, and that I'm only pretending to be to get a boyfriend. I informed the guy that 1. I'm married (to a non-nerd, even, if you don't count the math & science types as nerds), and 2. I wouldn't…

The best customer I ever had at the zoo snack shack involved popcorn. I usually turned the machine off thirty minutes before closing so it would cool enough to clean and ten minutes before closing bagged all the popcorn in ziplocs to turn into bird treats. Generally this was hunky dory, I only sold a bag or two a day…

I always felt bad for the two Michaels in my class, Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan.

Along the same lines as Becca's story about people making assumptions about educational backgrounds, I waited tables at an Italian chain restaurant that falls between Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill in terms of cost/quality the summer between college and law school. Our clientele was generally pretty decent, and as a…