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In reply to the discussion: What are the main reasons men pay for sex? [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)Stop with the talking points please.
It's the oldest profession for a reason.
There's nothing wrong with sex & there's nothing wrong with what 2 adults decide to do in the process of having that sex.
So long as it doesn't bring harm to either of the adults, of course.
YOU WILL NEVER END PROSTITUTION.
Why? Other women won't LET you, that's why.
They're not children, they are adults & they can make their own adult decisions.
They're not gonna trade the "patriarchy" for the "matriarchy".
Is it REALLY better for women to tell other women how to live their lives vs. men?
Tyranny is tyranny no matter which gender is in charge.
John Lucas
Excerpt from We Are Here To Win by a collection of Filipina prostitutes.
Something you need to read, redqueen. They're talking to you.
For years, we could only stand , mouths gagged, as we watched our new amos build their careers speaking for other underprivileged and mindless women in their list who they claim do not have the ability to speak for themselves. We are on top of that list. We could hardly figure them out. Maybe because we have not seen the corridors of the university like they all did that they baffle us. They speak so fiercely about fighting for womens right to self-determination but clearly that does not include us. Perhaps by women, they only meant themselves. We also do not understand the arrogance by which they have anointed themselves our saviors like it was their manifest destiny even when clearly we do not want them saving us because there is no reason to. What we want is save ourselves from them instead.
They do not only confuse us. They intimidate us. They speak in jargons we do not understand. We guess it was their way of telling us they know better and so we should just leave it to them to run our lives. But we really do not care about patriarchy, commodification and other words they spew. Those matters dont bring food on our table nor pay for our rent. All we are interested in is work undisturbed.
We grew up with succession of amos taking command of our lives which in reality were never truly our own. It is time we claim our lives back. It is time we find our voices because only in finding our voices back can we say our lives are our own. It would not be easy but it is possible. It can take years to get ourselves back to what we really should be but we are undaunted.
We must serve notice to our self-appointed saviours/masters that their time is up. They cant take our jobs away from us in the same way we cant take them away from their careers even if they have built them under our expense. Under the bus is no place for any human. And yes, whatever the society or anyone thinks of us, we are human beings deserving of every right accorded everybody else. Those rights are not for anyone to dispense. It is for us to claim and we are going to claim them.