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Re: Here Are the Prices for the Adidas x Kanye West "Yeezy Season 1" Collection

distance88 — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:15:46 -0000

Kanye is the new classism.

Re: Killer Mike Discusses The Killing of Michael Brown on CNN (VIDEO).

distance88 — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:15:11 -0000

Hahahahahahahahaha...oh wait--you're being serious.

Re: Legalizing Prostitution Would Protect Sex Workers From HIV

distance88 — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:19:04 -0000

Do you have any research or evidence to support your claim? A Google search on the "effect of legal prostitution in Amsterdam" turns up a lot of information that indicates legal prostitution is not "working fine," as the government has recently enacted new legislation to reduce the size of Amsterdam's red light district as a result of organized crime and sex trafficking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Legalizing Prostitution Would Protect Sex Workers From HIV

distance88 — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:01:53 -0000

"Pimps and crooks wanting to extort wouldn't really have any leverage, or knowledge of the activity. The prostitutes would earn better wages, live in safer homes, and be able to enjoy safer careers in private entertainment."

That's nice in theory--but reality doesn't seem to bear this out. In fact, in places where prostitution is legal or decriminalized, violence, organized crime, and sex trafficking all increased, and sex workers largely did not demonstrate an increased access to services:

http://www.equalitynow.org/...

Re: Legalizing Prostitution Would Protect Sex Workers From HIV

distance88 — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:34:27 -0000

There are plenty of feminists (i.e. socialist, radical) who are anti-prostitution as it as seen as giving men increased access to women's bodies. Also, the places in the world where prostitution is legalized tend to have the highest rates of sex trafficking.

And in the most gender equal places in the world (Norway, Sweden, Iceland), the selling of sex is not prosecuted, but the purchasing of sex is.

Re: Legalizing Prostitution Would Protect Sex Workers From HIV

distance88 — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:29:40 -0000

Whether it is legal or not--Is more or less prostitution a sign of cultural progress and gender equality? Morality aside, I'm doubtful that prostitution--the large scale idea and practice of a woman's (or anyone's) body as a business/capitalist transaction--is somehow fostering gender equality. The best way to reduce prostitution is to increase the opportunities that women have access to--gov't representation, jobs/equal pay, maternity leave, healthcare, etc.

I'm not anti sex work; sex work is anti me.

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:45:11 -0000

Yes. Because racism is dead. You've got the world all figured out, huh?

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:55:43 -0000

I'm sorry your self esteem is so low that you have to up-vote your own comments.

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:35:30 -0000

Shots fired!

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:18:11 -0000

"this article is about hatha yoga not the other stuff"

Therein lies the problem--the lack of awareness, or even acknowledgement, of "the other stuff."

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:49:09 -0000

As opposed to the "conservative" media who can't even do the math.

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:40:32 -0000

Absolutely, but this notion requires a world-view that extends beyond American borders.

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:11:18 -0000

Thank you, charming internet atheist! Please notice my comment had nothing to do with the veracity of religious doctrine, but merely the scrubbing of yoga's cultural origins.

Re: Why Your Yoga Class Is So White

distance88 — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:51:03 -0000

Not really surprised, but no mention of the Western dissociation of yoga from its Hindu/religious roots? Oh well.

http://hafsite.org/media/pr...

Re: Computer Mice: Still a Thing, Despite All Our Smartphones

distance88 — Tue, 06 May 2014 10:17:33 -0000

I'll never forget the story my dad told me about my late grandfather: my dad had accompanied my (then 98 year old) grandfather to the office of his insurance agent to handle some estate business. As the agent was pulling up my grandfather's account and clicking around on his computer with the mouse, my grandfather leans over to my dad and whispers, "Son, what the hell is that guy doing with that bar of soap?"

Re: Why Don't the 1 Percent Feel Rich?

distance88 — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:16:40 -0000

"Of the 7 deadly sins, envy is the only one that isn't any fun."

Absolutely. That's why I'm sharpening the guillotine instead.

Re: For The Horde

distance88 — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 10:48:25 -0000

Can I mention music here?

SZA's next EP ("Z") comes out on April 8!

Re: Thinking of Sex Work as Work

distance88 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:59:54 -0000

On conflating the gay rights with sex worker rights, Iceland's (#1 country in the WORLD in terms of gender equality) former Prime Minister, who is also a lesbian, is quoted as saying, "The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale."

As of 2009, Iceland has decriminalized the selling of sex, and criminalized the purchase of sex.

Re: Reviewing the Rationale for Stop-and-Frisk

distance88 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:43:04 -0000

Put your money where your mouth is and post your home address. I'll be there in a jiffy. Depending on your locale, I'll be sure to bring plenty of (lawful, of course) weaponry. We can shoot the sh*t, but fair warning, I have terrible aim.

Re: Reviewing the Rationale for Stop-and-Frisk

distance88 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:38:50 -0000

Similarly, it is utter folly to try to have a rational conversation with an individual who self-identifies his or her self as "The Lord Your God."

Re: Reviewing the Rationale for Stop-and-Frisk

distance88 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:37:35 -0000

It is utter folly to try to have a rational conversation with an individual who self-identifies his or her self as "genocidal_maniac."

Re: Students Who Do Sex Work

distance88 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:09:42 -0000

"...you're applying it for money."

In other words, you are SELLING it for money.

Re: Students Who Do Sex Work

distance88 — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:48:41 -0000

Not at all. Any article or study that is either pro or anti sex work starts from from a certain ideology. This is what motivates people to conduct research and write articles.

Re: Students Who Do Sex Work

distance88 — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:32:28 -0000

Noah, if all intuition is created equal, than surely you'd pay equal attention to the many sex workers who speak out against the industrialized sex trade.

Re: Students Who Do Sex Work

distance88 — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:29:13 -0000

FWIW, I think the decriminalization of sex work has its merits--provided the purchaser of sex receives an equal or more severe punishment as the sex worker.

I don't think it is a coincidence that 3 of the top 4 countries in the world with the SMALLEST gender gap (#1-Iceland, #3-Norway, #4-Sweden) have laws making the purchase of sex illegal.