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Links #297

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

A police spokesman commended the sergeant for not shooting [an innocent old man in his own home].  –  NYPD report

I’ve had this week’s video (provided by Jesse Walker) floating around for a while now, but there were things I wanted to show you more.  I do think you’ll like it; I just didn’t really think outtakes from a 40-year-old movie were very time-dependent.  The links above it were contributed by Women with a Vision  (“religion”), Tim Cushing (“shower” & “never”), and Popehat (“courthouse”).

  • But for video.
  • Religion in Louisiana.
  • Cop murders teen for taking a shower.
  • Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
  • Cop beats defense lawyer in courthouse. No charges, natch.

From the Archives

  • The link between abortion prohibition & “sex trafficking” hysteria increases.
  • Fairies, horses, Terry Pratchett, cops, teachers, politicians, poop & Grease.
  • Is it possible to rescue coerced victims, yet not interfere with sex workers?
  • I’m always pleased when someone attacks the concept of “empowerment”.
  • Thought the “anti-pimp hygiene products” trope couldn’t get any stupider?
  • Some gay activists oppose this because it denies them special privileges.
  • Cops, Kiwis, fossils, nursing, comics, graffiti, ovens, goats and lawyers.
  • More continuity between the Satanic Panic & “sex trafficking” hysteria.
  • Pimps! Sex slaves! Benevolent cops! And other imaginary characters!
  • Cops use “sex trafficking” as excuse to send SWAT team to strip club.
  • Sydney politicians lose fight against whores they hired a man to rape.
  • That whole “presumption of innocence” thing was nice while it lasted.
  • 10 Things You Need to Know Before You Support the Swedish Model.
  • Potty-obsessed politician wants to enforce his hangups with violence.
  • Louisville cops insist transgender murder victim wasn’t transgender.
  • The unchecked metastasis of the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Remember the Dallas outfit cashing in on “sex trafficking” tours?
  • Things had been going a lot better for my friend Kelly Michaels…
  • Cops have a strange way of showing they dislike stupid myths.
  • Read this and tell me that Marxism & feminism aren’t religions.
  • The newest “sign” of “sex trafficking”: going to a beauty parlor.
  • Spokane schemes to steal cars if driven across imaginary lines.
  • Still crusading against imaginary “traffickers” in North Dakota.
  • Advocate arrested as “pimp” for helping sex workers organize.
  • An introduction to Linda Smith and Shared Hope International.
  • Dominique Roe-Sepowitz makes up bullshit & calls it a “study”.
  • Propping up the narrative by calling male sexworkers “pimps”.
  • Male delusions about sex work start extra-early in Sweden.
  • 4% of the adult female population of Chicago are whores.
  • BDSM practitioners are generally psychologically healthy.
  • Spanish whores offer an “intro to prostitution” course.
  • Why do some sex workers like to pay for social dates?
  • Another politician demonstrates reaction formation.
  • Joyce Arthur hits it out of the park with this satire.
  • Another state arrests whores to brainwash them.
  • Dr. Brooke Magnanti reviews Ladies of the Night.
  • On the simultaneous having and eating of cake.
  • Three incorporeal beings share travelers’ tales.
  • A female client of sex workers tells her story.
  • Believing in nonsense does not make it true.
  • The world’s first successful penis transplant.
  • One of those awkward sex work moments.
  • Why Rachel Moran’s story is pure bullshit.
  • Virginia Postrel on anti-Barbie nonsense.
  • McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic.
  • Charlotte Rose’s work with the disabled.
  • Video ridicules condom criminalization.
  • Prohibitionists sometimes wake up.
  • My hectic first weeks in Seattle.
  • Couple arrested for witchcraft.
  • The humility of Meena Seshu.
  • Why Viagra ruined sex work.
  • Another stupid licensing law.
  • Rapist cops of the week.
  • Another Friday the 13th.

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