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Comment on Readercon Diet, The by Under the Beret » The Readercon Thing

Under the Beret » The Readercon Thing — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:04:13 +0000

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Comment on Frank Miller Feminism n. by denelian

denelian — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:02:55 +0000

Jenny,

all that is true,
the problem comes when defining a thing. while prostitution is sex work, not all sex work is prostitution. so if you only mean that specific subset of sex work… na da?

Comment on Frank Miller Feminism n. by Jenny Creed

Jenny Creed — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:59:23 +0000

Sorry, I meant to also include this link for reference: http://prostitution.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000849

Comment on Frank Miller Feminism n. by Jenny Creed

Jenny Creed — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:45:16 +0000

Probably the reason your prostitutes would like to be called sex workers is precisely to reduce the differentiation you speak of, since they’re often singled out as the most unwanted people in society. By making no difference they become at least as legitimate as the rest of the sex industry. At least that’s my understanding from browsing http://www.iusw.org/

Comment on Frank Miller Feminism n. by denelian

denelian — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:52:07 +0000

to nitpick your nitpick, “sex worker” describes someone working within the field as a whole; doing phone sex, stripping/exotic dancing, dom- and domme-ing, being the director of porn films, writing erotica…
and then you have the jobs – most of them, actually – wherein actually selling sex for money isn’t on the table. how do you differentiate between a sex worker who is selling actual sex, and one who is selling something *related* to sex but not sex itself? by naming the former a prostitute.
i’ve worked several jobs that can be listed as “sex work”; i’ve never been a prostitute.

a further issue is that, currently, “sex worker” implies [due to current work within the sex work field] *agency* on the part of the sex worker… which, in many many cases, in utterly absent in the types of stories being told. at BEST, you have a person turning to sex work as the only viable option; more often, you have a person forced into it.

Comment on Frank Miller Feminism n. by Jenny Creed

Jenny Creed — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:39:30 +0000

To nitpick, the preferred term is sex worker.

Comment on Robocopian adj. by Philip Palmer’s VERSION 43 « Lavie Tidhar

Philip Palmer’s VERSION 43 « Lavie Tidhar — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:24:45 +0000

[...] And then came the Locus review of Version 43, Palmer’s third novel, and I realised I had to get it. It had a cyborg PI who kept getting killed and coming back! It was positively Robocopian! [...]

Comment on Dystopalyptic n. by ebear

ebear — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:04:28 +0000

See Also: “Grim meathook future is grim, and has meathooks.” (attr: Charlie Stross, after Hunter S. Thompson)

Comment on Time-Anchoring n. by ebear

ebear — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:03:15 +0000

Just realized that there’s already a Clute for this–”Real Year.” i.e., “Gene Wolfe’s THE SORCERER’S HOUSE is a great book, but whatever it says in passing about cell phones, its Real Year is 1965.”

Comment on Clute v. by Links R Us « Everything Is Nice

Links R Us « Everything Is Nice — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:26:29 +0000

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