[Paul Atreides]

"We're not right-wingers and we're not conservatives - we're feminists," said Raymond. "Prostitution is certainly an issue that divides some elements of the feminist community, but issues divide a lot of groups. To present it as a catfight among feminists is feeding into the stereotype that we women and feminists just can't get it together."

You certainly couldn't "get it together" when a pair of fat, slob Dims were having their way with subordinates.

[Fenris6]

I'm reminded of my favorite table-dancer who *insists* she's exploiting me, not the other way around. Whatever baby, just shake it.

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.

[sierrahome]

"Women Performing Erotic Labor"

Hi-ho, hi-ho it's off to work we go.
You pay two bits to see two t!ts,
Hi-ho, hi-ho

[Bonaparte]

"This isn't about consent but compliance," said Raymond. "Most women would not be prostitutes is they had another option or choice."

This phony argument ranks right up there with the "back alley coat-hanger abortion" nonsense. Berkeley isn't some poverty-stricken, malaria-ridden third world country. There are job openings everywhere here, skilled and unskilled. There are publicly funded training programs of all sorts. These women are whores because that's what they want to be. Period.

[Fenris6]

"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture," wrote renowned feminist critic, author and educator Camille Paglia

Camille demonstrates the bankruptcy of the modern feminist movement with that statement - "its wrong to exploit women, but exploiting men is okay".

Cammille is not as intelligent as advertised.

[Still German Shepherd]

I think that headline should be sent to Jay Leno.

[TheForceOfOne]

I never have understood why women can give it away for free all day long with every guy in town but if they try to sell it they go to jail? Go figure..

[CriticalJ]

Create a big mud pit and let the two camps mud wrestle to determine who is right.

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Many feminist theorists ...

It's the sign of a very sick society when a statement like this isn't cause for rolling on the floor, laughing uncontrollably.

[tom h]

Sorry, everyone, I just can't help looking for photos of these "ladies" and posting them:

Wendy Chapkis, professor of women's studies and sociology at the University of Southern Maine (yuck!):

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" (barf!):

Andrea Dworkin is a well-known feminist and activist and is author of eleven books, including Intercourse, Pornography, and most recently, Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (puke!).

Laurie Shrage, professor of philosophy at the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona (gross!):

And here's the former hooker, Robyn Few: "Robyn Few a native of Kentucky, ran away from home at age thirteen and later became an exotic dancer. After marrying and having a daughter in her twenties, she began to take college courses in the hopes of earning a degree in theater arts. She came to California in 1993 to pursue theater and become an activist. Acting and activism not being the highest paying jobs, Few turned to prostitution to pay the bills in 1996. "

[skip_intro]

Shrage also believes that decriminalizing adult sex work would result in sharper political focus on far more serious and harsher practices, including forced and child labor, slavery and indenture, and violence.

All this goes on in Berkeley? Other than the violence, I mean. And what does "political focus" mean?

This whole article is a convoluted pile of dung.

[drhogan]

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.

[snooker]

Prostitutes should be forced to wear burques while on duty.

[Jimmy Valentine]

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,

[Constantine XIII]

Unfortunate headline alert

[Auntie Mame]

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