I think you are missing the point here. The sex workers will never be prosecuted or arrested, they should be supported by law enforcement and community outreach. Johns will still purchase sex. Nothing will stop entitled men from buying women’s bodies. BUT by punishing the Johns our society will send a message that the…

You eradicate trafficking by making it legal and regulated, so that police will stop harassing sex workers and start investigating issues of traffickers.

Women opposed to sex work even in a disguised and ostensibly innocuous way focus a lot on penises

Exactly! I feel like many Jez readers are white and priviledged and they have this idea that all sex work is empowering and those of us who are worried about women who are coerced or trafficked are “hysterical” like te author said. Well, I am Mexican and an immigrant and most women I know who did sex work were coerced…

I’m really torn about this issue. On the one hand, I have friends who have been sex workers. They have been white, middle class women who chose to get into it to make a few extra dollars, to make an income when they lost their jobs, to put themselves through school, etc.

I’m really torn about this issue. On the one hand, I have friends who have been sex workers. They have been white, middle class women who chose to get into it to make a few extra dollars, to make an income when they lost their jobs, to put themselves through school, etc. Some of them had good experiences, some of them…

I dunno. Someone in my life said he looked elsewhere because he felt rejected, but I find it to be a bunch of whiny BS. Like, somehow a woman always has to emotionally fix things in relationships. Or relationships are all about women giving men attention and if their attention is elsewhere, that’s a crisis.

I usually am of that opinion, but then Jez reposted this and I find it interesting: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/opi…

My reminder is that it may feel safer but is never better to laugh and call someone deluded instead of recognizing we are all making compromises to live our best life in a hard world. She’s the dumb one, I’m the smart one. She’s the lazy one, I’m the hard-working one. It’s easy to despise someone for not having more…

I knew a guy that lived in an apartment building Rue McClanahan owned, or so he says. Blanche herself. He calls her “Rue” to this day. Dude was the chillest stoner hippy. Guy told me one time some guys he knew broke a giant cement decorative pot she had while they were horsing around. He got shaky and would only say…

The Golden Girls are my spirit animal

When I heard about the recent sexism lawsuit at AutoZone, I was that person who wrote AutoZone to let them know that I’m a woman who works on cars and I will never shop there again.

‘Women Correcting Grammar And Spelling Because There Is A Generation Of Men Who Don’t Know How’

That’s the dream, right? A man who cooks for you and can’t spell “our” correctly.

I did this recently with some old acquaintances who were talking about the Patrick Kane rape case. I was like, “Uh, if I single, near a hockey star like him, and the moment presented itself, I would have gone home with him. I wouldn’t have expected to get raped”. Someone I don’t really know that well, said, “But…

I bet the friends you do have are cool as fuck, though!

Completely agree. I just get disappointed when it comes from people who are in the oppressed minority because I feel like they *should* get it and we’d be so much stronger as a group if we stuck together.

I don’t have a lot of friends for two reasons: I am awkward as hell, and I don’t put up with this kind of bullshit. If you start spouting off this kind of nonsense, I shut it down and remove myself from the situation. I’ve cut family members out of my life for this kind of shit, so why wouldn’t I do the same for…

Personally, my reaction is “OMG THAT IS THE STUPIDEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD YOU SAY!” then laugh obnoxiously loud for a good minute to make the shame really sink in, then lecture about why they are so wrong and stupid.