Links #524

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

I think my family is dead.  –  Harper Hansman

I spotted this video on YouTube last week, and it was so silly I had to share it.  The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Radley Balko, Amy Alkon, Boatfloating, Jesse Walker, and Mike Siegel, in that order.

From the Archives

  • This looks like a huge victory against the powerful Indian rescue industry.
  • Is there any non-prohibitionist who fails to recognize FOSTA is a disaster?
  • How countries with healthy ideas about sex react to the Swedish disease.
  • In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners.
  • The answer to “Why don’t you do x?” is usually “Because I don’t want to”.
  • The incidents we hear about are only a fraction of the ones that happen.
  • Cracked has fewer pro-sex work articles than it did, but this is excellent.
  • The State keeps contradicting itself to crucify the founders of Backpage.
  • Having their lives destroyed so bourgeois Englishwomen can feel good.
  • The term “pimp” is hopelessly contaminated and cannot be “reclaimed”.
  • Apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member” and civil rights vanish.
  • Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
  • Federal appeals court agrees “women who dress like sluts cause rape”.
  • Blaming bad behavior on an “addiction” is not accepting responsibility.
  • My favorite seems to have ghosted on me; should I try to contact her?
  • Cops, Rome, Atlantis, Antarctica, Simpsoni, Denise Nickerson & more.
  • Stories about hooker jails are crammed with appalling euphemisms.
  • No fad spreads faster than a new way to tyrannize innocent people.
  • Cops don’t test rape kits because it doesn’t advance their purpose.
  • Everybody knows cops are stupid, but this is a new level of idiocy.
  • It’s train-wreck fascinating to watch the lies spiral out of control.
  • It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
  • The “Good Shepherd Sisters” = Magdalene laundries = Ruhama.
  • Shaming clients is an exercise in evil fuckery that just won’t die.
  • West African “penis stealing” hysteria has spread to East Africa.
  • This abomination started as a means of spying on sex workers.
  • Locking pregnant women in cages for “trafficking” themselves.
  • Manufacturing data to “prove” a problem exists is not science.
  • Dr. David Ley can always be counted on to speak good sense.
  • As I keep saying, it’s already far too late to stop this tyranny.
  • No one person can undo an entire system of fascist tyranny.
  • On the hypocrisy of Democrats cheering for Stormy Daniels.
  • Delays in cases like this always benefit the government.
  • Another sleazy scam artist raping aspiring sex workers.
  • What is it with Alabama politicians and underage girls?
  • Why, how could anyone have predicted this outcome?
  • Cops, KISS, margarine, Nyalathotep and much more.
  • This stopped being a “fringe position” two years ago.
  • Stress tends to aggravate chronic health conditions.
  • The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
  • Sex work can also be a boon for disabled workers.
  • Spooge-based sexual assaults are growing worse.
  • I wonder what biological sex the victims were?
  • A productive week despite seasonal anxiety.
  • Another week full of gifts and good clients.
  • The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
  • All laws are backed by a gun in the room.
  • Not an article you’d see in the US.
  • An update on my fundraiser.
  • Fascism in action.
  • We told you so.