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• All those well-meaning radfem advocates for the elimination of sex work must find themselves ever so pleased to be in the company of nations like China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and now Vietnam where prostitution is rampant, illegal and brutally repressed. Naturally, such places have excellent records when it comes to zealously protecting women's rights.

  Make no mistake about it, the suppression of sex commerce is most rigorous where women have the least freedom and are subject to the most heinous abuse. You'd think that westerners who consider themselves progressive would make that connection. Instead, their silence on the abuse of women in non-western societies is deafening, lest they appear to be aligning themselves with the racist, imperialist west. To them, a boob job is as much a symbol of cultural repression as a burka.

  Like Fox News, where neo-con feminists like Gail Dines are frequent guests, they don't worry about the facts because they already know The Truth.

  • "To them, a boob job is as much a symbol of cultural repression as a burka." Well said. However, I don't think the maoist radfems really mind being in the company of those despotic nations al that much. Their cause is about politics, not women, and has been for the last 47 years or so. Allowing women their rights, and control to run their own lives and bodies as they see fit, is the cure for many if not most Third World ills.

  • Well said.