links for 2008-10-25
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"Also, how unsurprising is it that, even online, journalists expect sex workers to offer up personal information and if they don't, they're considered 'bitches'?"
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"It doesn’t matter that she told her boss when she was hired that she’d previously worked as an adult model, it doesn’t matter that she’s no longer an adult model (or, for that matter, affiliated with the site her pictures appear on), or even that she’s reportedly great at her job and a pleasure to work with — she’s naked on the internet, and therefore immoral and unfit for her job."
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"As well, I am unable to trust a company which treats its employees unfairly, such as the treatment AAG recently received. This kind of treatment is horrible, especially coming from a website which is attempting to push itself as a premiere, community-based site. Hearing about these things does not lend much support or truthfulness to Eden's supposed values of community, nor does it give the website a good reputation among people who are willing and able to promote it. "
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"Making the personal public and political is serious business. Because women's stories aren't told, it's incumbent upon female feminists to tell their own stories, to fill that void, to be unrepentant and loquacious raconteurs every chance we get, to talk about our bodies, our struggles, our triumphs, our needs, our lives in every aspect. It's our obligation to create a cacophony with our personal narratives, until there is a constant din that translates into equality, into balance."
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"Is Medicare destroyed by not giving it to everyone? Is public transit destroyed because more people pay for it than use it? I don’t follow this argument."
Oct 25 2008 08:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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