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Topic: 67 Missing Women in BC / Sex-work
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Candace
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Babbler # 3380
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posted 03 December 2002 08:50 PM
What a heart-wrencher. We should do something. At least bombard our MPs and newspapers with letters regarding the marginalization of sex-workers in society. Or something. Ideas?The other day, I watched a mainstream news coverage of prostitution in the Maritimes. Their solution to the "rising problem" was to hit the schools -- educate kids on the "evils" lurking behind the occupation and make the young women pledge NOT to become a sex-worker. I am of the belief that women can only be as strong as our weakest link. Until ALL women are guaranteed peace and security, we have won nothing. Until ALL women's work is valued in society, we are all nothing but "street trash." What's a sexual harassment policy in the workplace when it's thought that "she's just doing her job"? Aren't we all prostitutes, selling our labour, our lives away in increments for someone's else's gain?
From: Fredericton | Registered: Nov 2002
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rosebuds
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Babbler # 2399
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posted 03 December 2002 09:02 PM
But what's the solution? Legalize prostitution? Perhaps, and I'm not entirely against that if only for the sake of the sex-workers...I think the true "evil" lies in the attitudes of men (and women to a certain extent). There is a belief that sexualized women must be in some way marginalized. It's the old madonna/whore complex. My wife can't do this or she'd be a whore, so I'll go to a whore to get her to do it... I don't know - I've been thinking a lot these days about society's way of marking women as either "good girls" or "bad girls". It makes my skin crawl and yet it's everywhere all around us and it influences me every single day. How do we recognize it and eliminate it? Is it even possible? By the way, I've already written a letter to the Attorney General of BC. It's a good start, anyway...
From: Meanwhile, on the other side of the world... | Registered: Mar 2002
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