links for 2008-11-13
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"From what I saw, it seemed decent. It didn’t seem to have the same all-prostitutes-are-victims agenda Diane Sawyer had in her 20/20 documentary (a term I’m using loosely), and from what I saw, they did their research and talked to the right experts, like Amanda Brooks, who wrote a handbook to escorting on the internet, long-time activist and advocate Carol Leigh (Scarlot Harlot), and Martha Nussbaum, a phenomenal philosopher/scholar specializing in law and ethics, who’s given considerable thought to sex laws. The documentary also acknowledged the range of experiences and degrees of autonomy when it comes to sex work, something 20/20 failed to do in its attempt to be as reductive as humanly possible, and it touched on the decriminalization movement and the weird warped way its opposition continually conflates trafficking with prostitution (two vastly different crimes)."
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"I’m sure we can count on NBC for something fair and balanced and not the least bit sensational. I mean, if women are getting paid thousands of dollars, then they’re not dirty and inhuman like all the other hookers right?
*For future reference friends in the media- there are people here operating this blog, you’re welcome to contact us at boungnotgagged@gmail.com to share info of this sort. Don’t spam us please, it’s a waste of our time."
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"So yes, I have to ask, who are the stupid ones here? Keep in mind, gents, chances are, you would not be getting whatever it is unless you were willing to pay for it, and a woman doing everything she can to insure her own safety is far from unintelligent. "
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"It is a sad moment, disappointment and loss mingling with the new knowledge that this person is not someone you want in your life. "
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"There seems to be a bit of tension between people who use Twitter to further themselves in their industry and those who use Twitter for fun. I have been told a few times by people that they like my blog and wish my tweets were a little more industry-focused: the amount of oversharing and, yes, dick jokes, just isn’t conducive to achieving their goals on Twitter.
I’m not offended–Twitter is all about pulling people around you whose ideas are useful or amusing. Tastes vary and I come with a disclaimer. Just as some choose to further their business on Twitter, some of us choose to have fun and be ourselves in explosions of 140 characters."
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"Predictably, the book on Twitter isn’t being written by someone funny or entertaining. It’s being written by someone who posts 100 times on a slow day, and talks about things like conversations and communities and branding and … I don’t know, money? This doesn’t seem sustainable to me. Marketers can market to marketers and make friends with marketers and talk about marketing all day, and it’s not particularly interesting to regular people.
So don’t read it, right? I don’t. But a whole lot of other people do, because they’re climbing on top of each other to associate themselves with the people who have the most marketers reading them, so that they can market themselves to still more marketers, and become what I can only guess is called Market King of the Market."
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"For centuries, writers have experimented with forms that evoke the imperfection of thought, the inconstancy of human affairs, and the chastening passage of time. But as blogging evolves as a literary form, it is generating a new and quintessentially postmodern idiom that’s enabling writers to express themselves in ways that have never been seen or understood before. Its truths are provisional, and its ethos collective and messy. Yet the interaction it enables between writer and reader is unprecedented, visceral, and sometimes brutal. And make no mistake: it heralds a golden era for journalism."