Posts by giovanni tiso
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Should WINZ require people to be sex workers? It's legal, after all.
Have you known me to agree with the proposition that WINZ should require people to do work that they don't want to do?
But you know, there are a lot of other jobs that are there for the taking but WINZ doesn't require you to do. How about joining the police force, or the army?
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Study Links Chronic Fatigue to Virus Class
It's about CFS and class. It's as if Emma herself wrote it.
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But that wasn't what I asked. It was whether you'd be proud to tell everyone about it.
Would I ever brag about a child of mine being a banker? I doubt it. I'd brag about them being happy though, no trouble at all.
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Not so successful, according to the commentariat, Labor's "Time Warp" cartoon ad aimed at Tony Abbott:
That would be because it's embarrassing.
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Perhaps a slightly easier way to see it - is it actually something you'd be proud to tell you family that your (grown up) kids were doing? Why not? What's inherently wrong with finding out your son is sucking cocks for a living? Or your daughter? Think on it. They're learning the value of hard work, earning a crust, doing something with a future. Or are they?
Ask me if I'd rather a child of mine became a prostitute or a banker, I'd probably have to say - what kind of prostitute? and what kind of banker? But beyond that I'd like them to do something they enjoyed and that made them feel good about themselves and that they were comfortable with. I'd see it involving some sort of solidarity as a plus, but that's more about me than about them. What will it be, it's hard to say or know.
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Maybe there really are prostitutes that have other options, but choose this line of work instead.
I believe it is rather well documented, yes.
Syzygy? Sounds more like a magazine for women who get excited when they win at Scrabble.
Still way more erotic than Filament.
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And what circumstances put them in that situation?
What makes people want to be dentists? In all seriousness.
Most jobs can be looked at as a form of exploitation. Because they are. And some of them more than others - factory work, farming, prostitution - are carried out sometimes by actual slaves, but the stigma that remains attached to prostitution is always greater than that of other jobs that people sometimes do under lesser or greater duress. So again I'd have to ask you - why? What is it that makes to you prostitution different?
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People paying people for sex = degrading to people
I could never get this. Why would it be degrading? I mean so long as neither party feels that way. Obviously if you've been forced into the profession, yeah, I get that. But otherwise, what's the exact issue that you have with that particular transaction?
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What's the contrary of beans on toast? Shrimps on jelly?
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The new Labour government did actually devalue the $NZ by 20% on July 20, 1984
Yes, the issue is what they did on top of that.