I feel like this is so much bullshit, honestly. Mallory has made it perfectly clear that she supports Farrakhan’s help for people in her community but not his offensive views. I think she could be clearer about denouncing the potential his homophobia, anti-Semitism, etc., hold for causing harm, but I also think any…

Those both seem to be taken out of context. The 2011 one was part of a larger discussion, though the other person’s tweets are protected. Linda’s other tweet from the conversation is about criminal law.

That’s how I feel too. If her work were legal, she’d be in a much stronger position when it came to reporting problem clients. As it is right now, if she went to the police she’d be running a risk of losing custody of her child, and the guys hiring her know it.

True -- if you have to be a prostitute during pregnancy, high-end escort work like hers is likely the safest way to do it outside a legal brothel situation. Of course being rich and able to pass a background check doesn’t prove a guy isn’t a creep, but I imagine you have to play the odds.

I don’t know how the legality of any of this works, but shouldn’t she already have a private members-only site set up to sell photos and such? Every time I run across sex worker Twitter they seem to be hustling something like that. Seems like if she isn’t doing that already, she’s leaving easy money on the table.

That’s actually a fair point. I think sex workers have more physical interaction with creeps than your average jogger, but it’s not like it’s realistic for women to never do anything that could be more dangerous than sitting at home on your couch.

Oh yeah, I absolutely don’t think any kind of crime is being committed. Just seems risky enough to not be the best possible idea when there are safer alternatives. 

And what percentage of the rest were sex workers killed by clients or pimps? I’m not minimizing domestic violence at all, but a lot more women have male romantic partners than are sex workers.  You’re making a false equation.

Sure, but there’s a difference between a risk that kind of goes with the territory of being a heterosexual/bi female who wishes to have a child with a male partner, and an extra risk you’re choosing to take on beyond that. It’s like, driving is statistically dangerous on its own, but that doesn’t mean there’s no extra…

Thanks, that’s actually good to know. I agree that if she’s using a service like that and they actually do their job right, it’s much less risky than if she’s going with anybody who can pass a cursory google and phone interview.

So — assuming you’re female and straight — if your choice was an hour in a hotel room with your established romantic partner, or an hour in a hotel room with a random guy, you’d pick the random guy because statistics? This ... doesn’t seem like a very good safety tip.

I’m sorry, but that’s hooey. My chances of being beaten, raped and murdered sitting here sober on my couch aren’t quite zero, but they’re a lot closer to it than if I went and took my clothes off with a guy I don’t know. You may be right that prostitutes are safer than single women going home with random guys, but I’d…

Yeah, but they haven’t made a condom yet that will protect you from some awful SVU-type rape and murder. Screenings can only do so much.

This seems awfully risky to me, and I’m not totally clear on why she didn’t step it back to stripping/modeling/cam work until the baby comes. Every prostitute is one bad night away from being beaten, raped or murdered, and it’s one thing to take that risk for yourself and another to impose it on an unborn child.

This is what I do too, minus the bourbon and plus a bit of ginger. It takes like 20 minutes (my stove’s low is still pretty hot) and gives me so much thanksgiving cred. 

That sounds so good. Mine is cornbread with onions, celery, mushrooms and sage - basic but tasty. But yeah, if all you ever have is Stovetop you’ll get the wrong idea.

There’s something wrong with people who don’t like traditional stuffing. If you make it right, it’s a savory bread pudding and makes a much better gravy-absorber than your boring potatoes. And it’s so simple that if you don’t make it right, you probably shouldn’t be trying to cook on Thanksgiving anyhow.

Cornbread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole.

Some of it is about SEO and clickbait, sure, but you have to look at the tone. If you just want people to click on her name, you can do warm & fuzzy stories about what she was like in high school, or pieces about her top legislature priorities and what they’d mean. Whatever. But a lot of it is specifically aimed at…

They go home in bad moods and he proposes the next day because he realizes he might lose her over this. Something like that.