Comments on: The Week in Links: February 10

By: Elle

Elle — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:57:21 +0000

And the NY guy who beat the Russian stripper with the Rolex: at least we can take comfort in the fact that he already lost a leg the last time he was in trouble with the law for assaulting a woman. +1 for Karma and the justice system!

By: Elle

Elle — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:52:50 +0000

I was trying to figure out who the hell Channing Tatum is, and why I’ve been seeing him in this like magazines and television lately. Well, good for him.

By: Lilly Muse

Lilly Muse — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:04:52 +0000

In reply to Lilly Muse. Oops, couldn't edit that double-dip there at the end. That's what I get for trying to word process on the iPhone.

By: Lilly Muse

Lilly Muse — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:59:47 +0000

Also in regards to the Saskatoon article, it seems ludicrous to spend resources on a just-in-case-you-get-murdered registry rather than on legitimate violence prevention and protection measures. I am reminded though of an article I read a few years ago in some ultra-independent and radical magazine about this place called Saskatoon, which was painted as a very grave and depraved city. It’s a far cry from the image I get from something like Saskatoon’s tourism website, but if they really are up to their necks in crime and debauchery as the article led me to believe, then I could at least be a bit more understanding of such supreme stupidity.

I love Sarah M.’s Rabble blog! Of all the wonderfully poignant things she argues, I find a particular sweetness in this bit: “some feminists want men to stop seeing all women as whores…sex worker advocates want everyone to stop seeing whores as something other than women, other than human. These goals are not the same…” Such a simple idea but one that often gets muddled and swept aside (like countless others!). Do anti-sex work “feminists” really not see that by dehumanizing this entire group of women they are just lending their ironic voices to the equally whore-hating/loving patriarchy by showing them that it’s okay to distinguish between women of worth and women of naught?
whores they are really just lending their voices to the equally whore-hating patriarchy by

By: Anjasa

Anjasa — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:42:22 +0000

I’m boggling at the Saskatchewan article. Do they honestly expect prostitutes to come in, tell them they’re prostituting (which is still illegal here as far as I know), that they’re doing drugs and what types of drugs they’re using (illegal) and tell them what type of underwear they go for?

Firstly, yes, murders of prostitutes are a huge, huge problem – but the solution is to legalize prostitution and allow prostitutes to feel comfortable and supported when reporting crimes, when asking for protection from STDs, and help with finding housing and other necessities if they require it. Just making it easier for them to find murderers of prostitutes is the essence of putting a band-aid on a problem.

It doesn’t solve anything – it just makes it slightly easier to punish someone after a terrible crime has already been committed. In theory. This would still require them to actually follow these leads and not write these women off as lost cases as in the Pickton case.