• June@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    ‘Convicted’ prostitute? What the fuck is this phrasing?

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      11 months ago

      Prostitution is generally a crime and she was convicted. As opposed to an alleged prostitute, who may have only be charged or suspected of prostitution.

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        11 months ago

        Yea sure, but the problem is that it it villainizes her when all she was doing was sex work, which is only illegal because of puritanical religious meddling.

        Sex work is work, and she’s done nothing wrong other than break a morally ambiguous, at best, law. The phrasing is bullshit.

        • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          Eh, I’m a convicted speeder and I think convicted prostitute should have about as much weight. But you just know some of her customers are the same ones calling for her removal because hypocrisy and moral superiority go hand in hand.

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            11 months ago

            A speeder? As in, someone that breaks the speed limits on roads?

            No, that is worse, because when you speed you are putting other’s lives at risk. I never felt at risk as a bystander from someone selling sex.

            • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              You’re right to look down on me. My two speeding tickets in 33 years of driving reflect what a menace to society I’ve become. The carnage….