When researching the event I found this video [1]
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It sure is Harsher in Hindsight!
Man, if it weren't for the fact they published an article promoting Sex Tourism with underage girls, them losing almost all the staff I like would be my new DMOS.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Yeah... it was one of the life experience articles, presumably written by a teenage Vietnamese prostitute herself, who basically went "I'm okay and I like this job".
Whoever edited that article clearly sided with her.
I don't remember the title so I can't find you the link, unfortunately.
Edit: Said "Thai" before. My apologies.
edited 29th Dec '17 9:58:04 AM by Luminosity
Even giving them every benefit of the doubt (that they're just reporting what they've been told and what they've been told is 100% true) it's a seriously irresponsible article for painting a ridiculously positive picture of a most definitely not entirely positive situation. Even if the statements are entirely true for this example (which again, is seriously dubious), treating them as the norm (which the article blatantly does, with headers which are mostly blanket statements and not specific to this one woman) and sorta glossing over the whole "Southeast Area has a genuine sex trade problem" is... worrisome.
... not to mention the whole "police corruption is a good thing!" angle. Sure. police are willing to protect prostitutes. So long as they're paying off the police more than the people they're getting protection from. The article mentions a the police helping her deport a 16 year old foreign kid that pulled a knife on her. That's peachy. Talk to me when it's a wealthy 40 year old guy. The police in Vietnam are notoriously corrupt. They'll follow whoever pays them.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Honestly, prostitution in general seems to, in general, be explained by either "Well, it's better than nothing" or "It's a valid choice for sex-positive women". Past that, it's basically a toss-up of "when are people physically eligible to have sex", "when are people mentally eligible to have sex", or "when are people socially eligible to have sex" contrasted against "when is it exploitative for them to have sex when they might not have other choices".
Of course, male prostitutes are always conveniently exempt whenver someone wants to push a "prostitution and sex industriy in general is always evil and misogynistic no matter how legal, regulated, and above-board it is" narrative. There's a bit of irony in some people claiming they want to fight sexism while presenting these women as always helpless abused victims in need of saving regardless of the actual situation.
This is frankly a good example of Cracked ideological biases fucking up the site. They’re position on sex work is that it should be legal and regulated , then everything g”ll be peachy keen. So when someone tells them that in their country it, while not ecxact,y legal is functionally risk free because the cops protect them and they’re not judged for it they buy it hook line and stinker because it lines up with what they already want to push.
It's not "ideological biases". It's failure of basic research. Wanting prostitution to be legal and regulated has nothing to do with randomly praising a country where it's neither of those things.
And people who want it legal and regulated still don't want freaking 15-year-olds to participate in it.
I think another weird thing about the comments is the people claiming Values Dissonance and that it's fine there, and people ascribing Western Values (tm) to Vietnam are unreasonable. Except really, people that believe that dissonance exists seem to have some underlying racism going if they're willing to go "huh, underage prostitution? Sure, that sounds like something that's accepted there."
Anyhoo, much as I hate to derail from the "underage prostitution is bad, goddammit" train, Cody Johnston mentions in a tweet he'd like to continue Some News if someone wants to, you know, pay him for it
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/be-warned-your-own-trump-coming/
Ever since the election Pardign has done a real.. well not 180but at least a 60 degree turn.
http://www.cracked.com/article_25343_5-movies-that-preach-grand-messages-they-totally-ignore.html
And in more typical fare, a not very well argued article about movies being dumb.
edited 17th Jan '18 9:39:18 AM by thatindiantroper
It is pretty much Godwin's Law: The Article
Not much besides, Wong screaming beware of lefty Hitler! and using some rather sketchy arguments.
Inter arma enim silent leges

oh wow I was wondering why the last few days have been mostly photoplasties and ads for things with one article. rip in peace cracked. you went to crap at the end but you still had life sometimes.