Friday, August 8, 2008 | 10:00 am
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LOVE this post from Octo at Feministe!
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Trixie's thoughts on what that term actually means.
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So I wish my grandmother had blogged. I wish my mother had blogged. And I think the children and grandchildren and nieces and nephews (since I have no children, after all, and someone's gotta care about my cultural record, right?) of today's bloggers will cherish these records."
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"It seems like the people who say this are convinced that such kerfuffles only and could only happen amongst women, but I have to say: Believing that mostly means one has internalized the sexist messaging that terms disagreements between women as 'catfights' but between men as 'vigorous debate.'"
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"I think that Playgirl, had it listened to some much needed advice since I’ve been part of their pages, could have been something beautiful. There is so much potential for a magazine that appeals to women (and men who like looking at men, and reading about women), but for some reason, in the United States we can’t seem to execute the formula of naked men + intelligent sexual conversation + interesting topics that appeal to women = happy magazine."
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"And the misconceptions don't end there. The obvious media assumption is that girls who charge the most per hour make the most money, although I've had several 'high class escort' friends comment that their route is not the way to make the most money, and if they wanted to make more they would charge less. Charge less? Yes! Let me school those of you who don't know on why that is."
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"There’s a supposition in that statement that one distinct event affects our life decisions. That statement is, at best, a narrow way of looking at our life choices." YES. Such a great post!
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"I find it very important to recognize differences in the situations of people involved in sex work when it comes to outreach. Why? Because face it, point blank, end of story, the needs of a person in the sex industry who is there by choice, or who is an adult, or who does have an education, or who is not addicted to drugs, or who hasn’t been or is not currently being abused are going to be vastly different than the needs of someone who has any or many of those things going on in their lives. Those needs have to be assessed and dealt with on a person-by-person basis; so recognizing the differences between people is vital."
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"To Ironside, women are reduced to nothing more than our number of partners; not our sexual comfort level, sexual satisfaction, or any other indicator of sexual health and happiness. It's the number, not the people informing that number, that matters. That tally becomes the sum total of our sex life, regardless of what we got out of it."
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Does somebody know how DC.isReferencedBy happens in real life?
wrt Trixie, if you do your actions and the reasons are your reasons, i’m pretty sure that’s win. If that’s “really truly feminist” or whatever, I’m inclined to say that’s somebody else’s problem and I’m inclined not to give a shit.
Re: how many partners makes you promscuous: adjectives (like “promiscuous”) shouldn’t be driven out of people’s thinking because…?
A comment on one piece pretty close to what you linked to: “legalize and regulate it/tax it” opened part of one of my eyeballs: how much resistance to sex work is due to some of it being off the books and not tied to/controlled by the corporate economy?
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