• Machinist@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      A sex worker can be a honest whore. Nothing wrong with being a honest whore.

      Now being a sales weasel and making backroom deals, that’s a lying whore.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Your comment feels like “a honest black person can be a good nigga, no wrong with that, but if hes not nice he’s a ***** nigga” IDK you just sound bad as hell.

        • Machinist@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          It’s probably the word ‘whore’. Similar to ‘cunt’, it hits a little different from ‘prostitute’ or ‘pussy’.

          Culturally, ‘whore’ is an acceptable word for me to use. Any permutation of the N word is not.

          I’ve spent a fair amount of time among drag queens(not necessarily sex workers but there is overlap), strippers, prostitutes and crack whores. Most of them are decent folks in hard times. It is rare that people willingly choose sex work, instead, it’s usually desperation and addiction. A desperate population does desperate things like petty crime.

          • Valmond@lemmy.world
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            12 hours ago

            Everything you say feels A-ok (except you americans have a weird way forbidding words) but I think you missed my point. Whore is a way more loaded word than cunt, and in many ways, it’s not just an insult but also misogynist and so on, if used as an insult. So you can throw it around when it isn’t (my little cookie whore! or something I guess) but you can’t balance that off with the insult part, because it’s just too raw and bad IMO.

            Sorry for the word salad!

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Its just a phrase about managing expectations. You can replace whore with literally any profession and its the same message.