thanks for the tip to check out young nonprofit professionals, I hadn't heard of them yet. I go back and forth with checking craiglist. I think one of the other frustrating things is that when I explain my problem people (posted to Internships, the only way Post-College?)
I had a wake up call when in the Spring of 2007 I traveled to Cambodia for three months as a part of my study abroad. The media has done a decent job of talking about prostitution there, especially focusing (posted to Sex Workers vs. Feminism)
To MetaHara: You make huge assumptions from my comments that I am prejudiced towards sex-workers and sex-work. How far from the truth that is. I also believe that a sex-worker can be a feminist. However, I also believe those "soccer-mums" (posted to Sex Workers vs. Feminism)
AliCat "Soccer mums" are socially acceptable/ mainstream society. Strippers are stigmatized. That is what was being discussed. If you don't want to come off as prejudiced against strippers or sex workers, stop making generalized, sweeping, prejudiced statements. If you want (posted to Sex Workers vs. Feminism)
To i_muse: That "soccer mums" are considered mainstream society and acceptable, and sex-workers are not, hence stigmatized, is exactly the point I was making when I said that in a perfect world, both groups would be accepted without prejudice for (posted to Sex Workers vs. Feminism)
AliCat: "How can sex-work be empowering for women when the overwhelming and prevailing attitude towards them is one of prejudice" Thank goodness I do not look to you or others, let alone the mainstream to feel empowered. I did not (posted to Sex Workers vs. Feminism)
i_muse said, Sometimes, it's nice when people listen to the minority(or subculture) in the room rather than telling us how we should feel, how we should be and how discussing our feelings affects the rest of our minority group (or (posted to Sex Workers vs. Feminism)
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