Posted on 02/16/2012 9:13:10 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Melissa Petro has spent much of her young life writing about the plight of sex workers: The stigma and shame, their treatment as victims or villains. Now Petro has been trampled by the forces she was trying to fight. After writing about her own experience as a sex worker, Petro was forced to resign from her teaching post. With two master's degrees, five years' experience in nonprofit work and three years as a teacher, as well as a litany of published writings, Petro is skipping meals. No one will give her a job.
~SNIP~
Petro began stripping when she was 19, on her semester abroad in Mexico. From a working class home, and the first of her family to attend college, Petro had a string of grueling low-wage jobs. She entered the sex industry for the same reason as hundreds of thousands of American women: the money.
~SNIP~
Petro wishes her story could have raised issues like the legality of prostitution and the constitutionality of her speech. Instead, she describes herself as being treated as a monster, vanquished, now left to hand out resumes, and scrounge desperately for cash -- the same bleak circumstances that lead so many women to sex work in the first place.
"I was being idealistic," she writes about that HuffPost op-ed. "I was being provocative. I was naive. I picked a fight that I thought I could win -- and I was wrong."
(Excerpt) Read more at jobs.aol.com ...
And you know all this cause’ a friend told you about it, right? /sarcasm ...
She has eyes?
What? People don’t want her teaching their kids? I’m shocked.
She can’t find work?Unbelievable.For every hooker,there’s a Kennedy out there somewhere.”
...LOL!
LOL. Never had to pay for it nor would I want to. My GF takes care of me.
I said I’d hit it, not live with it!
I don't see where "constitutionality" comes into this at all. She made some bad decisions that negatively effected her career. Did I miss that part of the Constitution?
She quit when she started getting older and less able to command a good price.
I actually know a school teacher who used to be a stripper in her younger days.
She could always take a step down and become an ethical drug rep. (I kid, I kid).
GUILTY.
Whores demanding not to be treated like whores.
Just another day in the modern world.
The Dims really have us. Everyone here is/will be excited by the sexual aspect of this and not read that she was hired to TEACH CREATIVE WRITING TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. Wasting time and money teaching creative writing to people who should be learning to write is far more obscene than anything she does on her private time.
Why that looks just like Luna. So Luna Lovegood of Harry Potter fame is a hooker? Who knew?! Though I suppose her name is appropriate given her profession.
These people need to be kept far away from children
Someone will hire her...
Penthouse, Playboy.... you know, hard core porn... they know she has experience...
I think that is called a “mistress.”
“Wasting time and money teaching creative writing to people who should be learning to write is far more obscene than anything she does on her private time.”
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So. If she was teaching the fundamental 3 R’s, you would have no problem with her teaching your child during the day and hooking at night?
I used to have a tagline that went like this... “Yes, as a matter of fact - what you do in the privacy of your own bedroom is my business.”
Drove the libs nuts.
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