Being ridiculous and insane is a perfectly fine approach for any TV show.

it’s Gotham, so why the hell not.

Man with face on JumboTron tells women not to be attention whores.

Yes! Because people don’t point this out to gain significance, they point it out to MAKE IT STOP. If you point it out, you can prevent it from happening to others. Tony Robbins made a really dumb argument here.

1) any “significance” that this movement bestows upon any individual woman is hard won and fleeting.

Yes! Also, clock his assumption that only attractive woman can be harassed.

Exactly. It’s like Jezebel’s series on whatever happened to celebrity abusers/harassers. Last I checked they are all doing just fine and the women they attacked have gained zero “significance”.

F this guy. Seriously. Your boy can’t hire a women because she’s too pretty and he thinks she’ll sue him for harassment? Maybe don’t be a lecherous creepy boss. Problem solved.

I read the piece. So here’s my question: What’s the solution?

“Cosmo sends the same messages about female sexuality as Playboy,” the statement continues. “It places women’s value primarily on their ability to sexually satisfy a man and therefore plays into the same culture where men view and treat women as inanimate sex objects. Further, Cosmo targets young girls by placing…

Geez, it’s almost as if the sex trade isn’t the feminist utopia that chill-girl feminists think it is.

Yes. This is blatant propaganda meant to pink wash an inherently misogynistic, violently capitalistic industry. As are all of Jezebel’s articles on porn. Even the ones detailing abuses are written to make those abuses look like exceptions that prove that porn is a humane, liberating exercise.

That’s not data. It’s a self-report by current porn stars.

Anyone else sick of this Cool Girl Feminist Pro Porn angle? You can dress it up however you want, it still doesn’t make women any better off.

I once heard a woman say that every time you watch porn, you are contributing to the abuse that led the woman to do porn in the first place. Having a wife who was a stripper in LA and therefore knowing more than a few porn actresses, and ancedentolly knowing they have all been abused, I have not ever been able to be…

I cant even fucking watch porn any more.

I’ve only worked with sex workers in the context of criminal justice diversion programs, so generally those on the poorer, less privileged end of the business.

Sex work would still exist in a utopia, as would rape and murder. But it would be an anomaly, rather than how vulnerable people make ends meet, the way other types of slavery are now. People didn’t used to be able to imagine a world without chattel slavery, not that long ago.

I would very much like to have a clear answer to the following: if the argument is that it is too difficult to isolate sex trafficking activities from other consensual sex work, is it Jezebel’s position that therefore we preference consensual sex work over victims of online sexual trafficking? Because, to be really…

I don’t really believe that ‘consensual sex workers’ is a thing. Give me a society where a living wage is available to women on the low end of the socioeconomic spectrum, where health care and child care are available, and where rape and sexual assault are taken seriously and prosecuted. Then tell me that women who…