links for 2009-01-22
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"Harriet Harman, Minister of State, Minister for Justice at the Department for Constitutional Affairs and Member of Parliament for Camberwell and Peckham, is pushing for a Swedish-style law against the buying of sex, saying it will stem the demand for sex workers trafficked into Britain. This has now become incorporated in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2008, which is currently at the House of Lords.
The Sexual Freedom Coalition and Ariana Chevalier have consulted sex workers, clients, lawyers and academics, gathering together many views, all of which disagree with this monstrous proposal. Here is our list of their reasons."
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"Surely it’s not the first or the last time this will happen, but it strikes me as particularly absurd. It also strikes me that they’re trying to feminize comfort in order to mock femininity as a means of bolstering their later (implied) claim that something like fuel economy is masculine. After all, being a manly man is traditionally all about using up the largest amount of resources that you personally can, making fuel economy generally seen as “feminine,” and we need to leave those manly man with something to hold onto in order to sell them a car.
But still. How can not wanting your hands to freeze off — and I live in Western NY, and we know all about freezing here — be a gendered desire? What does it say about us when a concept so frankly gender neutral as comfort is so strongly and negatively feminized?"
Jan 22 2009 07:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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