i am against human trafficking, i'm against women or men or children being coerced, either physically, emotionally, mentally or economically, into any endeavor.
but these people are twisting words in such an orwellian way as to conflate true human tragedy with choice. if these folks are so against human bondage, why aren't they protesting red lobster for the use of slaves to devein shrimp? why aren't they protesting the gap for garment industry slave labor? http://www.salon.com/2015/03/22/the_slave_labor_behind_your_favorite_clothing_brands_gap_hm_and_more_exposed_partner/ (sorry don't know how to embed more than one link in a comment) i maintain that the "trafficking" ploy is but a means to the end of imposing their patriarchal sexual morality onto everyone, including the people that willingly and knowingly choose to partake in the sex work industry.Well, my dream of owning my own sex slave will have to wait. It seems that they will be in short supply at the Super Bowl in San Fransisco this week. Dammit!
Of course, one man's courtesan is another man's sex slave. For the record, I have no interest in a slave of any kind as they are traditionally defined. It's only when every MP lady and every hard working escort is hearded into the slave group that I am confused about the meaning of slavery. It's the same as being "trafficked". When a mutually beneficial personal services transaction is redefined as trafficking, then things are getting out of hand.
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i am against human trafficking, i'm against women or men or children being coerced, either physically, emotionally, mentally or economically, into any endeavor.
but these people are twisting words in such an orwellian way as to conflate true human tragedy with choice.
if these folks are so against human bondage, why aren't they protesting red lobster for the use of slaves to devein shrimp?
why aren't they protesting the gap for garment industry slave labor?
(sorry don't know how to embed more than one link in a comment)
i maintain that the "trafficking" ploy is but a means to the end of imposing their patriarchal sexual morality onto everyone, including the people that willingly and knowingly choose to partake in the sex work industry.
This thing is matriarchal in origin. Men simply haven't the mental strencth to be that manipulative. Look at the way women on (aptly named) Twitter can descend on a man like birds on a cat, such as in that story another Reason writer covered this week. Whenever they are beyond the reach of the raw physical, women have the advantage over men, though they usually are nicer to men tthan they are against each other
it's not a conscious move on men's parts... it's the instituionalized patriarchy that naturally evolved from before the dark ages when men would clobber women in the kisser if they didn't do what they were told.
up until recently it was conventional wisdom that men were smarter, more rational, better suited to creating and working. men ruled. it just evolved that way.
keeping women in their place vis-a-vis their bodies via slut shaming and abortion shaming is part of that old school mind set, ie, institutionalized patriarchy.