Some Musicals Are More Feminist Than Others : Ms. Magazine Blog
Great piece about Les Mis.
I dunno, I find the statement that the majority of women are forced into sex work suspect. In the sense of trafficking, I’m pretty sure that’s not true; in the sense of economic coercion, well… there are a lot of jobs people don’t like and work because otherwise they wouldn’t eat. I think it’s kind of whorephobic to treat sex work as special because it’s ~~the sexysex. I mean. Unless you say retail workers or domestic laborers or coal miners are forced into it.
Good point. I think it’s best to view sex work as part of the same system where people without certain kinds of privilege have no choice but to take more dangerous, low-paying, boring, and/or meaningless jobs. So if you’re going to criticize it on these grounds, you should be prepared to criticize the entire damn system.
Sorry if this makes no sense, it’s late and I’ve just spent hours CRYING ALL OF THE CRIES about grad school. Let me know if you want me to clarify anything.
