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humorlessfeminist:

dr-clear-heels:

I want to write something really articulate about this, but it’s about 2:30 am where I live so this is probably going to be really half-assed. Two things annoy me about this.

1. The obvious: she’s losing her job for being a former porn star, which is something that has no direct impact on her work performance.
2. There is an expectation that she be ashamed of her former career, and if she ever wants to work in any profession outside of the sex industry she will have to express “remorse” whether she means it or not. I know it would have negative consequences, but just once I’d love to see someone in her position say, “I’m not a sex worker anymore, but I used to be and I’m NOT fucking sorry. Piss off.”

/endrant

humorlessfeminist, I think you summed it up really well.  This is absolutely awful, and I hope Ms Myers can find a job soon with an employer who respects her and her past completely.  I’d also like to express horror that this is the second time this has happened to her.

This is horrible.

This is what happens to poor people who try to translate the noble lie of ‘social mobility’ into reality. They get vilified for it. This woman did what she, by the logic of capitalism, should have done - she exploited her only available assets to make money, pay for an education and progress up the social ladder. Now she’s being condemned for doing so by the very same people who would have eagerly disparaged her as sub-human and lazy if she ‘chose’ to stay poor instead.

I can relate. I’m only at university now because I did some things which can and do make people suspicious and critical of me. It wasn’t working in the sex industry but it was similarly on the fringe of what is considered ‘acceptable’ to ‘decent’ society. But, fuck it, that was the only way short of a lottery win that I was ever going to make the money I needed to spend three years studying. What I did then has no bearing or relevance on my character now other than that I was driven by necessity to make the best of a bad situation. I imagine it’s much the same for Ms Myers here. The logic of ‘social progression’ and ‘hard work’ says this woman should be lauded for her determination but that’s clearly not how it works in reality.

That’s just what I find personally significant about this story. The rest, other people are far better qualified to discuss. I’ll just finish by saying I wouldn’t have a problem if she was teaching my kids. There’s something deeply hypocritical about a culture that says it’s OK for a woman to be forced economically into selling sex, but that she can’t take part in ‘respectable’ society if she does so.

* - If you’re in the USA, bear in mind that the definitions of class are very different in the UK. And probably everywhere else now I think about it.

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