On Feb 5, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote:
> At 9:41 AM -0500 5/2/08, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
>> Good lord, that
>> sounds very final! We're inspired to ask: well then, who IS able to
>> conceptualize freedom? I suppose it must be people who hold the most
>> strenuously opposed views to the ideas $pread and co. espouse.
>
> Here's what they espouse:
>
> "We believe that all sex workers have a right to self-determination;
> to choose how we make a living and what we do with our bodies."
>
> They sound like typical freedom-loving Americans, in the noblest
> traditions of your great nation. I suppose in the old days there were
> similar noble organisations of chattel slaves, defending their
> self-evident right to choose for themselves the best way to pick the
> master's cotton.
What an odious comparison. Slaves were, you know, slaves. They couldn't just quit and get jobs as file clerks. Sex workers have to organize against not only shitty employers but the likes of you.
I've got a bunch of interviews in my radio archives with these folks and their friends - the $pread people, Audacia Ray, Laura Agustin. I'd tell you to listen to a few, but you probably won't, since you're so bullheaded.
Doug