If Minnie could take off her head and vomit, then what would stop me from eventually going on a date with a man that preferred to be called “$bill”? - Claire Meyer
I apologize for the very short column this week; though I did yesterday’s TW3 column before I left home, I had so little free time over the past few days I really couldn’t find the number and variety of links I can usually uncover. All the links above the Disney villainess apologia are from Radley Balko, and those between the two videos are from Neil Gaiman, Mike Siegel, Rick Horowitz and Jesse Walker (in that order). The second video is a full Tom Lehrer concert; I was inspired to dig it up by the article I linked last week.
- The US hasn’t quite reached this point yet.
- Another isolated incident. And another.
- Death by government.
- How bureaucracy works.
- Another example of “Stop faking!”
- Libertarianism even happens to ex-G-men.
- The autodecapitation & projectile vomiting of magic.
From the Archives
- I’m obsessed with crossdressers and paranoid about young women; would an older escort be more understanding?
- Mainstream media eagerly report human rights abuses in China, while ignoring the exact same ones in the West.
- If prohibitionists really want to “save” sex workers, why do they stop us from getting other jobs?
- I was in a long relationship with a prostitute, and now I feel guilty when I hire escorts. Why?
- When I was 12 a strange man helped me escape what might’ve become a sexual assault.
- Another African country whose anti-whore rhetoric strongly resembles that of the US.
- Celebrities are morally superior beings qualified to judge what others “deserve”.
- Zimbabwe’s quest to cut off its collective nose to spite its collective face.
- How Jezebel and other social constructionists give feminism a bad name.
- As bad as US prohibitionists are, at least most of ‘em aren’t murderous.
- Tennessee wants to punish fake “child trafficking” with the real thing.
- Teachers, robots, cops, toilet paper, games, undead & menstruation.
- Prohibitionists try to stop sex worker rights advocates with violence.
- Don’t go on a call without someone reliable knowing where you are.
- An old prohibitionist trick in a new guise: activism via sock puppetry.
- You’ll recognize the rhetoric in this 1985 Satanic Panic documentary.
- Another advantage to decriminalization: access to the legal system.
- Ashley Madison makes dumb claim; reporters obediently repeat it.
- Being an official busybody for an oppressive regime is hard work!
- How can a man get a driver job with an escort service or brothel?
- Activism is not for our benefit, but for that of future generations.
- Once again: female sex drive has nothing to do with blood flow.
- Why sugar baby relationships are both sensible and rewarding.
- Heroic cops protect New York from dangerous hot dog vendors.
- The “sex offender” registry does kids far more harm than good.
- Yet another rescue industry “hero” is exposed as a con artist.
- How much worse can they make “sex offender” registration?
- The continuing death-spiral of Nicholas Kristof’s reputation.
- Pathetic middle-class white British feminists are at it again.
- What if my local message board is trying to drive me out?
- The most complained-about advert in the UK since 1995.
- Did you ever have a client who physically repulsed you?
- Irish prohibitionist claims “prostitution isn’t about sex”.
- SWAT team dispatched to stop adults from having sex.
- A pro-censorship article and a toadying response to it.
- The largest study on domestic violence ever done.
- Yet another actress pretending she isn’t a whore.
- Because you know, “false consciousness” and all.
- The American pariah caste begins to fight back.
- Jill Brenneman on the Cleveland kidnap victims.
- Pope Francis touts non-Biblical mythology.
- Once again, Dr. David Ley tells it like it is.
- Do working girls really appreciate gifts?
- A two-part look at my favorite poems.
- Are most clients easy to please?
- Maggie’s Top 40.
