I was masochistic enough to read the threads about this on a few feminist blogs, and good lord, I had to close the window and go do some deep breathing. Such a maddening combination of prostitutes are dirty whores whose lives should be made as unpleasant as possible AND/OR prostitutes are deluded victims who need to be protected from themselves whether they like it or not. The truly talented people are the ones who can hold both positions at the same time, switching deftly from one to the other as necessary. And don't bother trying to tell them there's another option, because look, they have statistics to back this up!
Oh, statistics? Oh well, all right then, those of us who actually are sex workers will sit down and shut up and let ya'll decide what we deserve, thank you ma'am. I do not even participate in such threads. I have learned through infuriating experience that this is not a discussion based in reason, it's based on ideology, and you will never argue an ideologue out of their position.
It perturbs me no end that media reports refer to her as "the prostitute". Last night at a party someone called her "the prostitute" and I blurted, "She's not 'the prostitute', she's a woman who worked as a prostitute. No one calls the man involved 'the john', they call him Eliot Spitzer." Which wasn't totally fair, but we were drunk and anyway they got my point.
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