I can’t breathe. – Vanessa Peoples
I thought “I Am Woman” was vapid and silly even when I was very young and it was very popular. I do like “Angie Baby”, but I already featured that one in Links #373, so I decided to give the video to an intentionally silly song by Mac Davis. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Lenore Skenazy, Elizabeth N. Brown, Matt Welch, Walter Olson, Popehat, and Radley again, in that order.
- Just a few bad apples.
- Picnicking while black.
- Universal criminality in action.
- R.I.P. Mac Davis and Helen Reddy.
- Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
- How to get a “confession” to a nonexistent “crime”.
- Cops only lie when their mouths or writing fingers are moving.
From the Archives
- Prohibitionists pretend young women need to be “groomed” into sex work.
- Sex abuse & “sex trafficking” hysterias, twin children of the Satanic Panic.
- Asian press can’t let go of the word “rescue”, even when patently absurd.
- “Lack of standing” is a convenient way for a judge to duck responsibility.
- Fanatics parroting nonsense they clearly neither understand nor believe.
- Why would anyone rely on a person they distrusted to spoon-feed them?
- I’ll be so glad when the current incarnation of the Cult of the Child ends.
- Think I’ll comply with the European “right to be forgotten”? Think again.
- AirBnB “trafficking” fantasies aren’t popular in Belgium; sadfeelz ensue.
- Why does billionaire sociopath Swanee Hunt hate sex workers so much?
- At least this dude doesn’t call his amusement-device arcades “brothels”.
- Amateurs: a health menace who should be licensed & heavily regulated.
- The more sex workers speak in public, the harder it will be to ignore us.
- I am old enough to eat Little Debbie Sparkly Unicorn Cakes if I want to.
- Redbridge has a history of harassing sex workers with “crime” rhetoric.
- Twitter welcomes fake sex workers while working to silence real ones.
- Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
- Edmonton has a long history of abusing & dehumanizing sex workers.
- Cops don’t care how many lives they destroy with their sick fantasies.
- Low-rent escort service foolishly neglected to check IDs of applicants.
- This could potentially be useful in winning the support of bureaucrats.
- This decision is necessary to prevent a cascade of predatory lawsuits.
- Normal people are increasingly sick of prohibitionism and puritanism.
- Calling for pro-labor politicians and activists to support sex workers.
- Everyone arrested in a “sting” should sue the cops if at all possible.
- Whores are not only the new drugs; we’re also the new “terrorism”.
- Dominique “Body Fluids” Roe-Sepowitz with another bogus “study”.
- Destroying Asian masseuses’ livelihood does not constitute “help”.
- In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting her.
- So much for the claimed “increase in sex trafficking in Montana”.
- How countries with healthy ideas about sex react to moral panic.
- Transphobes try to accomplish their goals by spreading hysteria.
- Even celebrities are seeing “sex trafficking” everyplace they go.
- Can a woman with unusual skin markings succeed in escorting?
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- It’s far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle.
- Cops, Jessye Norman, rubber chickens and much more.
- Cops, politicians, Florida, the letter “n” and much more.
- Big masked heroes in riot gear brutalize naked women.
- Following the money, vendettas, alliances, and favors.
- I love it when rival herds of swine feed on each other.
- A reception for The War on Whores at Reason.
- Prohibitionists attempt to kill the messenger.
- This was a wise move on Stagliano’s part.
- This is still a hot-button issue in Japan.
- Everything’s Better Than a Hooker.
- Population 3745.