The term is "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck it must be a duck."
How does one lawyer completely botch inductive reasoning in an attempt to be clever?
I smell an agenda.
Is it safe to call the author an ambulance chaser because he is a lawyer? Well don't call me a hooker because I work as an exotic dancer. That is not my sector pal.
How does one expect to help these soulless and lost women, some which are dancing their way through college, law or med school if you don't understand them?
This article is so full of contradictions and assumptions and not to mention backwards thinking. It makes me sad knowing this fellow is a part of the justice system. This has to be one of the most ignorant things I've ever read on the subject:
"The Destin City Council saw a rat scurrying its way into town and decided to trap it before it turned into an infestation.""strip clubs offer a tempting eye-candy buffet for people to feed on while taking a break from the rat race of their regular daily routines. However, in actuality stripping is a “viral marketing campaign,” which can promote both prostitution and the trafficking of women."
- Yet 7th and 8th graders are being raped by their teachers in public schools, mail order brides are totally legal and cyber-pimps blatantly selling sex on Craigslist will never be stopped. Okay.
- Like a traffic ticket and stuff? I used to dance in Canada and have friends who have danced in Paris, Greece, Japan and other locales. Are we guilty of trafficking?
- In defense of paying customers couldn't they also escape the rat race by spending time with their families or going skiing or something? How does the author jump from relaxation to being lured into human trafficking? I didn't break up that paragraph that is how it is written! Why not focus our attention on perpetrators who smuggle children over borders, and leave the lowly, exploited strippers alone? I will gladly rally funds to this issue of child trafficking, including non-custodial parents within the United States, if I saw it would actually go to the cause.
- Money is given to police to enjoy lap dances and haul consenting adults off to jail costing more in tax money.
"in Europe brothels are referred to as...""merely pull the wool over their own eyes in an attempt to label themselves as something less disgraceful."
- The article is about strip clubs not brothels. There is a difference I don't have a misconception about the industry but fer fucks sake. Most lawyers would be highly insulted if I assumed them a "public pretender" so perhaps we should do our best to find out the distinctions here.
- There are real lawyers, and another crew of attorney's who are less disgraceful than blood sucking lawyers. Just like there are good cops and there are pigs. Yet all strippers are 'hookers'. There is no distinction or varying degrees of hookerdom just a slew of straight up prostitutes.
Just another pretentious, A-hole waving the flag known as the double standard.
"customers see these smiling women waving from the dance floor and assume the stripping lifestyle must be a free choice"I R IN UR LAW FIRMS SEDUZING UR TOURNEYS...
- Last time I checked it was.
"This smile, however, is a form of Stockholm Syndrome..."- For most girls that is the satisfying smile of not being trapped into becoming a dental assistant.
Okay that's enough before I get slapped with a violation of fair use. Now I see all it takes is to have an advanced degree to vomit up whatever you wish and you're considered an authority.
I've been a stripper longer than this lawyer has been lawyer'ing. Particularly I despise overly educated and small minded people telling me how to live my life. I didn't vote for Obama so stop trying to force this socialist crap into my G string.
1 comments:
Wow. I have to agree with you that this men and others of his ilk are terribly misguided and insulting to women and men who participate freely in dancing, as well as other forms of sex work. As a dancer, I know how incredibly tiresome the whole "dancing is prostitution and all whores are fallen victims" bullshit is, and hope we all soon shed this ridiculous impedement to progress in labor rights and public health in this country. The comparison to "Stockholm Syndrome" is so laughable, I can't believe anyne took it seriously--duh, if you're in customer service, you smile and wave. If you're in business, you shake hands, take people out to lunches, schmooze. If you work in the service industry, it's "service with a smile" even under sometimes degrading conditions. How is smiling because you are an an ENTERTAINER, for pete's sake, and it's part of your job, is like being a kidnapping victim, I have no idea.
I agree too that solidarity in ending human trafficking is vital. These are totally unacceptable human rights abuses that are happening under people's noses every day, yet the media choose to turn people's attention to sensationalistic, titiallating stories about the horrors of stripping. It's fucking ridiculous, and it has to stop.
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