Amen. I was molested as a kid and raped as a teenager and I sold sex as an adult. I do not believe those things are unrelated for me or for many others and I find the “rah-rah-yay-for-me I love my job as a sex worker” position privileged and oblivious to the way that sex work IS connected to earlier trauma for *so*…
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Human trafficking is a serious problem. But most sex workers I know were groomed into sex work, and not literally trafficked. And I think that that also needs to be discussed. I have three close friends/family members in sex work. One is a friend I grew up with. One is a sister in law. And one is a cousin I grew up…
It is not prudish to be against sex work. It is humanist. Sex is not a form of labour. It is a biological function.
That is genuinely a good question, for which there are a variety of answers. And nearly all of those answers are subject to either bad faith assumptions or the gravity of paternalistic norms on bodily sanctity and “purity”, etc.- my own included. I think this is closest to how I feel about it, though:
Nevada’s system is... not ideal. It gives too much power and control to the brothel owners.
Absolutely it does! I get my bill back from ER stays, and it’s literally in the tens of thousands of dollars, which insurance then has to pay. Like, y’all motherfuckers could have saved SO MUCH MONEY by just helping me out in covering my visits, but noOOooo000OOOo
I find it amazing that the feminist position on sex work is Pro. Why on Earth would one woman encourage another woman to set their ambitions so low and enter into a career field that is so damaging? I thought feminism was about uplifting females. I would never in my life suggest to my sister that she enter into…
I just heard something on NPR the other day about a woman who went to the ER after she was bitten by a stray cat and was charged FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS for the rabies shot. 48. Thousand. Dollars.
This is horrific and sad, and I have prayers going toward’s Carrie’s family. And sadly this is nothing new. The system is working exactly as designed- humans are nothing more than numbers and codes in the medical coding system, nothing more.
Sex work should be decriminalized, so as not to punish sex workers. Sex work should be regulated, in an effort to protect sex workers. But sex work should also be understood epidemiologically and historically as an overwhelmingly female occupation because of the inherent imbalances of the sexes that the spectrum of…
They looked like regular white people who kiss their dogs in the mouth and enjoy the occasional Pat Benatar ditty.
I’m sure this is a whoosh-joke. But if not, that’s Toni Basil and not Pat Benatar.
Some people in the comments are saying that Emma Thompson shouldn’t have to explain her refusal to work with Lasseter. That is true, but I don’t think this is Emma Thompson explaining in the sense of providing a justification for her choice.
This reminds me of 1985, when Cybill Shepherd attended the Emmy awards in a stunning strapless black gown and bright red Reeboks. It created quite a sensation. Imagine a beautiful woman in a display profession actually wearing comfy shoes!
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Too easy, but I can never think of Chilton without thinking of The Replacements.
Green Book steals the name of a book created by an African American man literally as a survival technique and uses it to tell a story about a white man generously coming to see a black man as his equal and thereby magicking away the problem of centuries of institutional racism.
The film is historical fiction in the mode of Marie Antoinette...it’s not trying to be accurate! Most of its inaccuracies are played for laughs. Like that dance scene, oh my god.
I loved this movie SO MUCH. But I was watching it at a mid-day matinee in a kind of conservative area, and the theater was full of older couples. I think they thought they were going to see a more “typical” historical drama, and some of them were clearly, deeply confused by the whole thing. There were audible gasps,…