Better way to word it is, do you treat them with respect?  You should treat everyone with respect, till they give you a reason not to.  

Do I respect providers?  Not all of them.  But I don't respect everyone I meet regardless of gender, occupation, etc.

My mother raised me to respect all women.

Fairly new to the hobby, so might have limited exposure compared to some of you.

That being said the providers I have see have been women who know themselves, are comfortable with themselves and very caring people.

Which isn't always how they get portrayed on this board at times.  But again, limited experience compared to some of yo

This is how I treat people in general.

But that's a topic for another post I guess.

What was the question again?

a longer post by me inside

I mostly do not feel put off  by people disrespecting me in a civil rights way , like yesterday , I had to watch some bullshit about human trafficking on TV that put me in a bad light , which is obviously a unfair bias to take against me by linking me to vague human trafficking claims that I really have nothing to do  with personally ...  I can stand up in the room and say = " This is bullshit " and people get what  I mean ... OR ..  There was the time a customer casually played " Forrest Gump " on TV during  a session . and .  TBH  I was insulting by the Jenny " troubled woman " stereotype ...  I said " I hate Jenny " and I did not  have to explain why  I felt that way..    

However , more recently , I have struggled with clients trying to dish out customer complaints I really don't deserve . and . Like ... I have to act like I accept their opinion by kissing their ass after they said rude  false attacks against me.  I also recently   went through an aggressive client rounding up a bunch of people who just did not hate me as much as he did , but   he tried to manipulate them all into hating me with him , which  I thought was abusive . especially  when I let the cat out of the bag that I am already dealing with recent PTSD from abuse stalking I went through recently.  To me,  that was another form of provider disreespect dressed up like " customer is always right " power play bullshit   : (

are in any area.  Most providers are decent people trying to get along.  
Been robbed once. She was pathetic, not evil. Her illness later destroyed her.
Karma wins--hobbyists who pretend that they sit on pedestals and providers scrape the floor are Hump-ty Dumpty, waiting to fall.

Like others have indicated, I generally respect everyone until they give me a reason not to.  That being said, there are some groups of people I respect more than others.  For instance, I respect the Hells Angels, but not the Vice Lords.  I respect self-made millionaires who started their own business from scratch, but do not respect spoiled rich shits who inherited their wealth from mommy and daddy.  As a rule, I respect women, but I know there are gold diggers and female psychopaths who will falsely accuse a man of rape just to advance their own agenda.  As far as providers/escorts/courtesans/hookers, or whatever you want to call them, I generally hold them in high regard.  As a matter of fact, I have found that female sex workers in general tend to be the best of the female population, and my highest levels of respect are reserved for these amazing women.

I don't see how they do what they do day in and day out, often multiple times in a day.  They take all-comers (all who pass screening anyway) and are intimate wth them, body and often soul. The best treat each client with love, even though some of those clients may act like an asshat towards them in some ways.  That takes a special kind of person to be able to do what providers do, and do it consistently well over time.  

Of course, there's people who by their actions, eg deception, abuse, and ripoffs, who show they aren't worthy of respect.  But they're by far the exceptions.

... they've done or said something against me that makes me change my mind. Even in that case, I don't use derogatory language to try and besmirch them. I hold Providers in high regard, similarly as I do those in Law Enforcement, Fire Fighters, ALL of our brave members of the Armed forces, and RNs. I don't know if I could do their jobs at all and I stand in awe of them.