June 3, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
As I've pointed out many times in the past, women are more likely than men to support the violent policing of other women's sexualities; were it not for this fact, it would be very difficult indeed for even the staunchest patriarchy to effectively enforce laws intended to keep women in line. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the "aunts" are women who collaborate with the religious dictatorship to control other women, and in fact Atwood has said that the novel is (among other things) a critique of the kind of "feminism" whose adherents are only too happy to police other women (some of her "aunts" are even depicted as former feminists). In the real world, such women - those who are willing to sell out their own gender by assisting a violent patriarchy to oppress them - can be found in every form of prohibitionism, but the most self-deluded of their ilk are probably female cops who belong to "vice" gangs. And that's why I have absolutely no sympathy for the women involved in this ugly mess:
...Several high-ranking Harris County [Texas cops]...sexually assault[ed] and harass[ed] their female colleagues under the guise of stopping human trafficking. In a new federal lawsuit, [several of these] women...accuse [boss cops] Alan Rosen...Chris Gore...and...Shane Rigdon of having "molested and traumatized" them in...prostitution stings...Rosen, Gore, and Rigdon are the [ring]leaders of the department's federally funded human trafficking unit..."an opportunity for notoriety and media attention"...[which] considers entrapping sex workers...to be the main part of its mission. The unit['s underlying propaganda claims]...that most sex workers are forced into it and if you only arrest enough of them, someone will give up "their sex traffic business handlers"...Liz Gomez, Marissa Sanchez, and Felecia McKinney...were selected for... "bachelor party" prostitution stings [that] soon grew into a booze-fueled playground for sexual exploitation in which young, untrained [women] were subject to disgusting abuse...the Harris County District Attorney's Office...[knew] about this abuse for months, but...refused to take any action and rebuffed anyone who complained...[plaintiffs] spoke up about their abuse...but...were ridiculed by their commanders, retaliated against by their abusers, and quietly reassigned to less prestigious duties. In addition, Jacquelyn Aluotto, a "human trafficking advocate" employed by the county (and the fourth plaintiff in this suit) spoke up about went what on as part of these undercover operations and was fired the day after giving an interview to the office's Internal Affairs division...
Summary: "When we agreed to trick other people into cages with face-eating leopards, we didn't know the leopards would eat our faces!" said Gomez, Sanchez, McKinney, and Aluotto. Waaah, waaaah, waaah. Liz Brown goes into the whole disgusting scam with her usual thoroughness, so I advise you to follow the link and read it all yourself. Female vice cops and other violent prohibitionists like to imagine that there are two different kinds of women, "good" and "bad", which are self-evidently as different as chalk and cheese, so it's a rude awakening for them when they realize that the difference, such as it is, isn't as obvious as puritans like to pretend; if it were, there would be no need for elaborate scams intended to tell the sheep from the goats, and no women getting harassed or even arrested for "prostitution" on the basis of "evidence" such as being alone in public; wearing high-heeled boots or skinny jeans; owning lingerie; possessing condoms or cell phones; being trans, black, or Asian; and of course " looking like a whore ". Unfortunately, far too many women refuse to accept this until the fronts of their heads are being chewed off by vicious animals they intended to sic on others.
