paper-is-patient replied to your post: How Addiction Turned Me Into a High-Flying Hooker

Oh my gosh, I read that earlier and immediately cringed and thought about what you’d have to say about it.

I don’t have much to say except that shit like that offends me. I am followed and follow myself a number of activists in sex workers rights and I differ to what they have to say on the subject. But from a media analysis standpoint (which is, after all, what I do mostly on this Tumblr), it upsets me to no end because stuff like that piece only contributes to the dehumanization and stigmatization of sex workers.

Oh, look at the silly addict and her life choices! Look at the “Other” and her “not at all like ours” life.

I am going to be hyperbolic as hell here, but after all, it’s part of my personality: shit like this contributes to crimes committed against sex workers. Sure, not directly, not by actually instigating them, but by further portraying them as damaged, broken individuals. That piece could very well be posted at the Daily Mail (in style and sensational approach). And that’s when I get angry because media has a responsibility towards ethical standards. Particularly when said media built its popularity riding the feminist pony.

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