Shaming sex workers: UK paper mocks women
UK tabloid The Sun had stays classy by featuring a slide show of "ugly" sex workers' mug shots.
They even quote a cop mocking the women:
One police officer laughed: "It's amazing that some of these women could make a living. There must be a lot of desperate guys out there."
This just makes me sad. Not for the women they're ridiculing, but for humanity. Sigh.
UPDATE: Seems they may have taken it down. Is it too much to hope it was in a crisis of conscience?
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This just makes me sad. Not for the women they're ridiculing, but for humanity.
Also for the specific women, I hope.
Not only sexist and demeaning to women in general but showing a complete ignorance about what sex workers actually do as well as about male sexuality. So wrong and stupid on so many levels.
Well The Sun should not be used as a justification for any general misgivings for the state of Western culture. It's yellow-journalism at its worst.
Can't find this article on their site.
The article has been removed from the site...Who knew the Sun were starting to care? I'm going outside right now to start looking for pigs flying etc.
Oh, yay, a troll!
well this is the sun newspaper-not exactly the propieters of women's rights. i remember an article damning women who were their page 3 girls who went onto do porn. they said they were shocked "their girls" would do anything like that. they say their page 3 pictures are not about sexual arousal-but why else would they have these pics if men didnt get off looking at a womans bare chest? its not like i'm learing the cure for parkinsons staring at her nipples now is it?
This is classier than a lot of the stuff The Sun prints.