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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-02-15

"'Our community has some of the most marginalized in our society, so doing things that could potentially harm the livelihood of sex workers doesn't really matter to folks because we are seen as disposable,' Santos muses. 'But we are actively seeing how attacks on sex workers quickly becomes an attack on all women. How are people going to be able to differentiate between a sex trafficked victim and a woman traveling alone or eating dinner alone or just having a glass of wine alone? We are just the entrance to something that can and will get bigger if we allow it.'" -- Sandra Song, "When Anti-Sex Trafficking Policies Like the Marriott's Do More Harm Than Good", 2019-01-30

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finding_helena: Girl staring off into the distance. Text from "River of Dreams" by Billy Joel (Default)
posted by [personal profile] finding_helena at 05:13pm on 2019-02-15
This reminds me of Gloria Steinem's story of being told that she couldn't be in a hotel bar because "unescorted ladies" weren't allowed out of concern they were prostitutes... in like 1960.
minoanmiss: Minoan Traders and an Egyptian (Minoan Traders)
posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 07:46pm on 2019-02-15
Everything old is new again! Ugh.
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posted by [personal profile] selki at 11:42pm on 2019-02-15
Food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote about not being able to eat in *restaurants* without a male companion, though at least that was earlier than the 1960s (30s?).
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 06:20am on 2019-02-16
I really – really, really, really – wish the Left would finally just Dig It that it is always the case, 100% of the time, that when somebody floats a bright idea for stamping out some sexual practice, it just so happens to result in the subjugation of women. Anti-porn rules immediately on implementation turned on educational materials about contraception and reproductive health and sexual diversity. Anti-sex-work rules immediately turned on women for being out in public. Always. Always.

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