God forbid, you can’t normalize and legitimize icky prostitution that I have such a personal moral problem with, because then…
-oh wait. Because then, stuff like this might not happen.
Well then.
Popular opinion: Hooker murders are icky, grisly, and wrong, because, well, murder is wrong but … well, thank goodness it was “just” a whore. No big whoop, right? And, well, that’s what she gets, you know? I mean, that’s just part of the risks of being a skanky ho.
This has me so pissed off right now. What the hell is wrong with people?
This “Well, thank goodness just a _____ died and not, like, a real normal, GOOD person” attitude strikes a real sore spot with me.
ETA: Oh, and also… don’t bother reading the comments on the Bastard Logic thread. Trust me.
My feelings on the bit of it I (regrettably) skimmed echo what GallingGalla said at The Curvature:
The comment thread on the bastard.logic story made me sick. A bunch of men (and especially one guy) making every excuse in the book for why the “sentence” was justified — probably enough to create a “hating on sex workers” bingo card.
Speaking of The Curvature, thanks to Cara for also posting about this on Feministe.
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You know during the Ipswich murders? One of my friends said the heard a guy on the radio saying “it’s interesting that the man is murdering prostitutes and not women”. Cos prostitutes are obviously have a gender of their own. ‘Else they don’t have a gender cos they ain’t human.
I’ve not looked into this properly, everything I’ve heard is “well, they know it’s a dangerous game when they enter into it” and “I think to be fair it was in self defense”.
Caroline, I remember reading something w/ almost that exact wording about the Ipswich murders. I think it was in the Daily Mail or somewhere similarly vile. Statements like that really make my skin crawl.