If a street-walker is a whore, is a whore a street walker?
I think so.
A street-walker, in modern terms, is a sex trade worker in the business of soliciting ; a legal term.
How does a street-walker advertise ? Style of dress.
Are street-walkers at risk? Most certainly they are.
Not least to victimization, to torture and to their very lives.
If a young person who is not a street-walker, dresses like a street walker, is she as much at risk as a street-walker.
In the same circumstances, I think so.
She argues she has a right to dress like a slut. Yes she certainly does.
If she argues she has a right to be safe from harm while dressed like a street-walker, she is not dealing with the reality of the world she lives in.
She is young. She is innocent. She is not wise.
Wisdom is not a characteristic of youth.Though it is not necessarily a characteristic of age either.
The world is not ordered the way we think it should be.
Why should a girl who chooses to dress like a street-walker, but isn't, expect to be safer on city streets than a street-walker plying her trade.
It's not a safe option no matter how you look at it.
I finally won the argument with my grand-daughter.
Saturday 1 September 2012
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You certainly don't have to dress like a 'street walker' to be a whore, though.
Would have loved to hear that family debate. Takes your minds off Quebec and the USA.
Blame the victim.
3:38 PM Puhleeze, just one day when you could resist a jab ?
A street walker has a certain higher risk to herself, I agree.
I think your logic statement that is the first sentence is flawed however. The demographics of the sex industry workers go far beyond street walkers. There are street walkers (don't see any of them in Aurora). Then you have strip club dancers, massage parlour attendants, "escorts" that provide services at their homes or rented properties and "escorts" that travel to see you at your residence. All you have to do is read the ads in the Banner (oh, you don't read that paper) to see that some of these services are available in Aurora. Other services are advertised in web sites and papers.
They don't advertise by their dress. They advertise with high-quality web sites. They advertise with ads in the papers. They advertise in sites like Kijiji or Craigslist (although they are not supposed to).
I don't know what a "street walker" dresses like. Are you referring to short skirts and high-heels? I guess you have not walked around in downtown Toronto lately. Are you saying that young office clerks in the TD Centre are dressing like street walkers?
I think your argument is just as flawed as youn Doug Ford's daughter.
There was an interesting letter to the Editor in the Star this morning. The writer pointed out that there are sexual assults on women wearing bhurkas and on nuns. They are not certainly dressing like street walkers.
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