Monday, February 17, 2020

As "trabalhadoras do sexo" querem ser salvas?

Today’s sex workers, like their Victorian sisters, don’t want ‘saving, por Kate Lister, em The Guardian:

The tactics employed by the society and groups such as Not Buying It are virtually identical. But what has changed in the intervening 77 years is that the sex workers at the centre of these debates are finally being allowed to speak for themselves. And to the surprise of many feminist groups, it turns out that they do not want saving. Nor do they seem particularly grateful to their would-be saviours for campaigning on their behalf to do them out of a job. In fact, they appear to be downright angry about have-a-go rescue missions that involve secretly filming them naked, then outing them to members of local licensing committees.

There’s nothing new about the rescue dynamic. Sympathy for the plight of the “fallen woman”, and a need to save her, was endemic in Victorian newspapers. Hundreds of charitable organisations were established throughout the 19th century to rescue and reform such women.
 Dito isto, não estou certo que não queiram mesmo ser "salvas"; sim, provavelmente não querem que alguém lhes vá fechar o local de trabalho e atirá-las para o desemprego; mas será que muitas não quereriam que alguém lhes arranja-se um emprego noutro ramo de atividade, desde que com uma remuneração similar?

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