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U.S. Feminists Split Over Berkeley Prostitution Measure
North Gate News Online ^ | 01 November 2004 | Kai Ma

Posted on 11/01/2004 8:21:06 PM PST by Lorianne

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To: Lorianne

feminism has come a long way. i like the U Mass prof who believes that pimps and johns should be arrested, but not prostitutes. nothing like equal rights!
i wonder who they should arrest if a woman hires a male escort and has sex with him.


21 posted on 11/01/2004 9:51:23 PM PST by drhogan
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To: Lorianne
Prostitutes should be forced to wear burques while on duty.
22 posted on 11/01/2004 9:52:39 PM PST by snooker (Bush 2004 --- stay with the strong horse)
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To: tom h

thanks for posting the pictures of those HOTTIES!! do you have any PHONE NUMBERS?
(oh, man--i forgot to take my anti-psychotic medication.)


23 posted on 11/01/2004 9:55:09 PM PST by drhogan
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To: Fenris6
If feminists can't recognize that selling your body for sex doesn't turn you into a tool, or influence men to treat other women as objects - there's no hope for them.

Actually there's no hope for men. That's exactly what many wives' intentions are upfront, particularly the "trophy wives." Men are to blind to see it.

Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce, avg term is 3 years, and the women file 75% of the time. They don't even need a reason; just say they're bored. Three million women each year get close to 50% of the husbands' avg. net worth of $80k. The divorce industry is the largest corporation in the US. It tranfers a net $80 billion a year from men to women, attorneys pocket $20 Billion. It dwarf's GM and Microsoft combined. Like a judge once told me referring to the endless divorce industry-marriage scams he's seen. "Prostitutes are more honest than alot of the wives I meet. They at least tell men the cost upfront."

24 posted on 11/01/2004 10:28:39 PM PST by T. Jefferson
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To: Lorianne
This as well as anything accurately describes the intellectual degeneracy and complete banality of modern feminism.

There is absolutely no substance here. Only the chittering of fraudulent "intellectuals" totally removed from reality.

Regards,

25 posted on 11/02/2004 4:02:01 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Lorianne

Unfortunate headline alert


26 posted on 11/02/2004 4:03:49 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: freecopper01; sierrahome
Once you've been here a bit longer, you might realize that half of fun of FR is seeing these guys cut up and laugh at things. If you think this guy's offensive, wait till the REAL peanut gallery arrives. :P

Have a sense of humor!

That said, I think we all agree that this is just more asinine amoral nonsense from a place where such things are common. No argument from me on that.
27 posted on 11/02/2004 4:09:30 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Constantine XIII

"Once you've been here a bit longer, you might realize that half of fun of FR is seeing these guys cut up and laugh at things. If you think this guy's offensive, wait till the REAL peanut gallery arrives. :P"

You point is very well said, thanks so much


28 posted on 11/02/2004 5:43:26 AM PST by sierrahome (Department of Redundancy Department)
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To: Lorianne

Just to wrap this item up for posterity, this measure, calling for police leniency toward criminal prostitution, failed by a 2-1 margin.


29 posted on 11/14/2004 7:57:17 AM PST by Auntie Mame ("Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." Henry Ford)
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To: Paul Atreides
If There's Not a Colon, It's Not An Academic Paper: A Study of Academic Papers and Punctuation
30 posted on 11/14/2004 8:02:15 AM PST by Puddleglum (Thank God the Boston Brahmin lost)
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To: Puddleglum

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31 posted on 11/14/2004 5:34:29 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: everyone


Radical feminists want to destroy the traditional mores of society, and therefore are tempted to support prostitution.
But they also want to be protected from men's baser impulses, and therefore tend to pull back from the implications of their ideology.

In other words, they want to have their cake and eat it too. In the real world, this is never possible. Mugged by reality again.


32 posted on 11/14/2004 5:39:36 PM PST by California Patriot (California Patriot)
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To: Paul Atreides
Just making fun of the titles of the papers by both the pro and anti crowd:

Chapkis, author of "Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor"

Janice G. Raymond, professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author of "Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States: International and Domestic Trends"

When I was in college, the pomposity of academic argument, foreshadowed by the absurdly smug and strained titles of the various papers presented, often drained the energy out of what might otherwise have been a lively debate. This article brought back memories of how hopelessly ill-equipped most liberal arts profs are to engage reality.

33 posted on 11/14/2004 7:39:06 PM PST by Puddleglum (Thank God the Boston Brahman lost)
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