None of your fucking business! – Axis of Awesome
Since I’m in Los Angeles right now, I’m sure you aren’t surprised this link column is a bit short. It does, however, feature a very cute, funny video from the comedy band Axis of Awesome (whom I’ve featured twice before) in which they announce that one of their members is trans. The video was provided by Mistress Matisse, and the links above it by Radley Balko, Nun Ya, Tim Cushing and Nun Ya again (in that order).
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Welcome to our world, bison.
- Least necessary remake of all time.
- I would’ve loved to hear his arguments for this.
From the Archives
- US media print ignorance from cops and prohibitionists; Canadian ones publish articles by sex workers.
- “Feminist” insinuates other women’s pragmatic choices are not “real” because she disagrees with them.
- A call for a return of the policy which enabled Robert Pickton to slaughter women virtually at will.
- The outcome was a foregone conclusion, and the lawyers who orchestrated this shitshow knew it.
- Fetishist writes app to cram complex situations into a series of stock “sex trafficking” phrases.
- State expects parents to “control” 33-year-old daughter, abandon her, or turn her in to cops.
- Is Twitter heading in the same direction as Google, PayPal, LinkedIn, et al?
- How could “an unusual collection of wigs” fit in a small amount of luggage?
- The same sporting events touted repeatedly despite total lack of evidence.
- Morally-warped billionaire teams up with clueless, ignorant old millionaire.
- Swedish cultists so deluded they want disagreeing with them to be illegal.
- Even officials in Vietnam are sounding more sympathetic to sex workers.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists fantasize a tiny town is a “sex trafficking hub”.
- Is the CPS hiring bad TV writers to produce scripts for their accusations?
- Rape, tomato juice, fantasy, prohibition, cops, politicians and Star Trek.
- The phrase “human trafficking” now means “any behavior I don’t like”.
- Cops, propaganda, robots, Sweden, crocodiles, Tom Lehrer and more.
- Can’t let the facts get in the way of a money grab, can we Mr. Spicer?
- If cops can use these tactics against legal businesses, is anyone safe?
- Useful idiots want to subject all human interaction to criminal law.
- Another anti-gay “authority” figure is revealed as a closet queer.
- This craptastic mess is thick with dysphemisms and whorearchy.
- Attacking a legal practice without questioning its basic premise.
- The “Harvard of sex trafficking”? WTF does that even mean?
- What do porn performers and gun dealers have in common?
- Miami guards scald a prisoner to death in a locked shower.
- Cops caught on camera abusing massage parlor manager.
- More horrible gadgets for micromanaging your child’s life.
- The havoc wrought by “sex trafficking” hysteria on Nepal.
- A horrifying landscape of self-loathing and reality-denial.
- Would a photo of a “topless” male baby also be banned?
- “Not happening in front of this camera” ≠ “eliminated”.
- Skepticism about “sex trafficking” tropes is growing.
- How can a client help to achieve decriminalization?
- Yet another awful article about “safe harbor” laws.
- Prohibitionists are “rescuing” whores to death.
- “Sex trafficking” as an example of The Big Lie.
- Alix Tichelman sentenced to 6 years in prison.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishism really is like a cult.
- Another sex worker murdered in Hong Kong.
- The short, unhappy life of Barbara Payton.
- Another excellent essay from Felicia Anna.
- In which I ask readers for makeup advice.
- Sex worker rights activists won’t go away.
- Kim Jong-Un’s ex-lover is alive and well.
- Tom Meagher becomes a prohibitionist.
- An ally writes to placate prohibitionists.
- What, not 50 or 100 per day? Slackers.
- I love it when they feed on each other.
- Could a bill be any more autofellatory?
- Serial sex worker rapist found guilty.
- Good satire sticks close to the truth.
- Another case of the missing word.
- As we keep saying over and over.
- Disgruntled client sues stripper.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Decorating my incall.
Are you going to be speaking publicly while you’re in LA? I’m not interested in booking an appointment, but I’d really like to hear you speak, so please make a top post if you’re going to be speaking publicly.
I’ve never heard of an actual attempt to enact a law limiting the weight of strippers — but I’ve seen some outrageous examples, which suggests that some misguided people somewhere have managed to enact a law that protects them from looks discrimination. Puh-leeze! Let’s repeal that, if it exists.
Re: I would’ve loved to hear his arguments for this..
Who needs laws?
The Guardian, 23 May 2016 :
Too fat for Facebook: photo banned for depicting body in ‘undesirable manner’
Facebook has apologized for wrongly banning a photo of plus-sized model Tess Holliday for violating its ‘health and fitness’ advertising policy