The new feminists: still fighting | The Observer
Bah, that the first person they interview is the grassroots coordinator for Object already put me off from the whole article. A quote from her interview, where she discusses the laws that she lobbied for, to limit the opening of lap dance clubs in the UK: “Local people will be able to oppose an application for a club on the basis that it would be inappropriate for the character of the neighbourhood”.
So, it is, at the bottom line, a class issue, isn’t it? How sex workers will diminish the quality of a neigbourhood, turn it into an “undesirable” place just by their mere presence. The “character of a neighborhood”, a nice way of defining the normative, middle class, oppressive structures of urban spaces where the “good” people live and that should be restricted for those that bring contamination.
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