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wow. so Jill let another racist, cissexizt, classic, talking-bout-shit-they-dont-know-shit-about blogger make a post

fyeahlilbitoeverything:

everythingbutharleyquinn:

blackamazon:

karnythia:

so-treu:

over on that cracker jack website of hers.

Jill don’t give a shit about women, she really doesn’t.

I need someone to explain to me how she read the word whore being used that many times in one piece & didn’t peep game. Like I’m two. I’ll wait.

* hands you graham crackers and milk under blanky and waits for this storytime*

Okay, well, as a sex worker, in our writings about sex work and in our socialising with each other and in our political protests, we often use the word ‘whore’ as a form of reclaimation. It’s a word we’ve taken on in ownership. Specific discrimination against sex workers is described as ‘whorephobia’. As the blogger in question is a sex worker (or was) - I don’t see how her using the word repeatedly should’ve indicated - anything in particular? Unless somewhere it’s been proven her sex work history is fabricated? As a sex worker, the word whore is hers to reclaim and use and many sex workers find it liberating and powerful to pepper our work with it.

Of course, Feministe should’ve just done their damn research and not printed something by a blogger who has a history of racism, misogyny, sizeism and cissexism, and as a sex worker I’m fucking furious another sex worker has engaged in that sort of behaviour - but, given she also describes herself as a ‘courtesan’ and ‘honest’, she’s likely a particularly class-privileged worker who wouldn’t associate with any dirty street walkers. I mean, seriously, the only times I’ve seen the word ‘courtesan’ used these days is by girls (myself included) who want to give classist clients the impression the service is some sort of super-duper special high-end one. No one actually uses it in discourse seriously. Not if they have politics worth a damn.

‘Whore’… is another story.

This is the same site that published the racist-ass “Letter To Blue Ivy Carter” essay and published it under “New Favorite Things”…AFTER the writer issued a public apology and admitted it was racist as hell.

Oh, and look, she back-tracked with “I didn’t realize who I was allowing to represent my site” again.