Search results

I also feel like noting here that despite one person in this thread already telling you that they have friends who have worked in the sex industry, you are continuing to repeatedly use a word that is now widely considered a slur. http://titsandsass.com/the-p-word-101/ - here is an explanation...

the pattern i see is misogyny. you don't combat that by waging an unrealistic and (itself a misogynist) war on sex work and sex workers based on some fantasy of what you think the world should look like, as opposed to what it actually looks like now for the people who are living this. A source...

Amnesty's position as well as of more recently - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/08/sex-workers-rights-are-human-rights/ These are enormous global organisations who have spent years conducting research, so maybe that will address Benny's concern that this is all getting a bit...

ugh, was a quick post in anger - of course i've read it. she hated her clients and her experience of sex work. but sorry let me rephrase the question - what does that letter have to do with the implementation of sex work policy which would aim for the complete abolition of sex work, which is...

Equality Now is an organisation that has repeatedly attempted to de-fund sex worker rights groups led by sex workers themselves, which have been instrumental in providing access to healthcare globally in countries where sex work is fully or partially illegal and stigmatized, and their...

Obviously there's no global catch all, and obviously people feel more qualified to comment based on the places where they have experience of living. I'd much rather be the kind of person who feels angry at posts like yours than the kind of person who feels so 'disrespected' by that that it...

Your priorities are weird. Would you have preferred it if I'd asked you politely to be quiet instead?

My feeling is that crack-downs on sex workers and their clients do absolutely nothing to stem that.

The anti-trafficking position obviously sounds very rational but in reality it often seems to go hand in hand with general anti-migration stuff. A lot of women who worked as sex workers in London were deported based on police testimony that they'd been 'trafficked' after the recent soho raids...

Sex workers are systematically excluded from these academic conversations because they don't satisfy 'academic criteria'. They may be interviewed by academics and used as research tools but that's not the same as actively involving them in the conversation. Violence and murder are caused by a...

at what point does sex work not offend your sensibilities as someone self-declared "as liberal as they come"? would you ban porn too? or would you allow soft-core stuff? how about advertising referencing sex? you're going to have to find a lot of jobs. are you going to match their earnings...

Also, don't just make stuff up.

Listen to sex workers and shut up. The end.

sorry, i assumed there was more to your post than flippancy

every scene, action or otherwise, is filled with little details that tell you about the world and the characters, and how they relate to it and each other - that's what the films actually about imo and it's why i think it's a strength of the film that max isn't a scene stealing hero - it allows...

lol and they say criticism is dead aside from this being an obviously daft assessment method it seems odd to me to be criticising the film for being 'nostalgic' and 'macho' on the one hand whilst also insisting on max dominating the entire film (as though almost every event being seen from his...

of course, that's not the absurd bit

Sure. Go critique a blog post.

this is well observed but if you think that you're involved in that process via dissensus in 2015 then yes you are delusional

i mean i see the problem on the one hand you stop posting these gems and the board fades away on the other you keep the place going with your posts, the scene collapses and you're responsible it's a dilemma