Celine Bisette: Sex workers unite

[escapefromstress]

ain't this the truth!

so I've submitted my response, they said it's too long for a letter to the editor and if I cut it to 250 words they'd consider it.

I appealed to their sense of fairness, explained the piece I was responding to was over 700 words, named me specifically no less than 9 times, and was largely untrue. Also reminded them I was arguing for my right to speak, and that it would be a real shame if they also denied me that right.

They responded and offered to consider a 500 word response in op-ed format. It's been sent. Would be sweet if it published tomorrow as the Saturday Post has bigger readership.

Keep your fingers crossed for me please.

Good for you Jess! Can't wait to read it. :thumb:

 

[nobody123]

The Post is a shadow of what it used to be.

That's a pretty low bar, seeing as it started out less than 20 years ago as a platform for Conrad Black and his reprehensible worldview. Think the Sun with bigger words.

Still, here's hoping they print Jessica's rebuttal.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Then contact the Post and demand equal time or print to present your rebuttled. .

The comments are very supportive of HHOC and nicely rebutts the piece by Ms. Bisette.

Here's an excerpt copied from the NP webpage:

Not sure I agree. The pro-C36 anti-sex work or focuses on sex workers as victims. There's nothing wrong I can see for willing and content sex workers to stand up, make their case, to counter the victim narrative. The campaign against c36 ought to be able to showcase more than one group in making the case for safer work conditions.
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Meshell80 crankyvisitor • 3 days ago
I agree. The issue isn't "happiness" but rather one of informed consent. It is the sex trade worker who has no other, or believes he or she has no other options that Bill C36 is meant to protect.

It would be absolutely unethical to create laws that support victimization. There must be a divide between sex workers who choose that kind of work, and those who have no choice.

Human trafficking is a real and serious issue that is difficult to seperate from the sex trade.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Clearly some folks have missed the point of HHC. I'll say this for the 10th time...HHC started because many of us felt that only the bad stories & survival sex work stories were told in Committee. We felt divided & left out. Not all of us work for survival. Not all of us are forced to work. Many of us are happy & ambitious. There is hypocrisy in that article! Telling the bad side is ok, but a movement about the good is separation? I call bullshit & I told Maggie's such as well! Shame on them for trying to discredit the notion of happy. There was a time many words were used to demean someone. Playboy, gay, slut. They are now words of empowerment.

If some folks can't see past their own formula, that is their problem. We have tons & tons of letters of beautiful stories. Clearly our movement has merit.

The division of sex workers is only being divided by nay-sayers. HHC has yet to condemn anyone's experience. This article is ignorant by choice. Boooo!

(BTW Muse, they mentioned you on 1010 last night in their discussion about Ashley Madisons).

 

[GPIDEAL]

It seems movements always get painted with a them vs us leaning. I am very active in the Happpy Hookers and my mission is to advocate consensual sex working what ever shape or form that may be. From the preamble of the Happy Hooker Movement it makes this very clear. There are some women who are just plain bitchy and trying to discredit new movements because they are used to the old platforms. The author happens to be one of them and is nitpicking and taking things out of context. There is no us vs/ them in the Happy Hooker movement. It is a dedicated forward thinking group of women who have a common goal. The movement doesn't have time or interest for pertty in-fighting. There will always be nay-sayers. So be it.

Absolutely.

Bill C-36 will also endanger 'happy hookers' and potentially turn them into victims.

 

[GPIDEAL]

pssssstttt.....

just got a response ....

be sure to pick up tomorrow's paper .......

Way to go Jessica. I'll read it by the lake with a Cohiba.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Ultimately it will be up to each province to decide if they want ot enforce the bill. The HHC's letters to Kathleen Wynne as an initiative, if all else fails will be extremely productive. As a persecuted woman herself, hopefully she will have empathy for what all of these women and Johns are expressing.

Good point, and hopefully like you say.