Show Us Your Tits Union Card!
Kerry Howley | May 8, 2007, 9:51pm
Over at Campus Progress, Matthew Yglesias responds to Garance Franke-Ruta's no-tits-'til-21 proposal. It's good. But not as good as this comment by one Dan Kervick:
The problem with people like Joe Francis is that he is exploiting non-unionized, unprotected, poorly compensated, unlicensed (and often incapacitated) temp workers, and profiting handsomely from this exploitative labor market. Eligibility to work as a model for pornography, and legal hiring for pornography, should be contingent on the model's membership in a sex worker union, which would a variety of legal, health, pay scale and other occupational protections. If we moved to such a model, then we might have some hope of rationally addressing this issue within the context of existing social norms about the appropriate legal age limits for contracting one's labor. And no one would have the legal right to drive by a crowd and say "here's 100 bucks to pull up your shirt" to a bunch of young women lacking union cards.
I fully support making the commercial display of breasts contingent on compulsory union membership, or at least a reality television show based on this concept. Will disgruntled Girls Gone Wild go on strikes, making room for low-rent scabs? Will Mardi-Gras flashers demand a living wage, prompting college kids everywhere to go on sex-positive hunger strikes? Will women who post lewd pictures of themselves online be prosecuted for failure to join the sisterhood of porn? The possibilities are endless.
Guy Montag | May 9, 2007, 12:29am | #
Once your trip to Baghdad that you've been talking about gets approved.
As usual, what are you talking about?
Oh, I see. Okay, let me attempt to help.
Firstly, there is no "capital" of "the Orient" and it certainly is not Baghdad. You see, there are many nations in Asia and only one of them has a capital called Baghdad. That country is Iraq.
There are many peoples in the Orient too. All of them are not Iraqi, nor are all of them Muslim. Perhaps you should study this before you are manning a "tank" in Balko Company of the Jefferson Brigade when you liberate the oppressed peoples from the USA.
More on those peoples and the Global War on Terror. You see, the entire war is not in Iraq. It is being waged in other nations too. There are other nations in the Orient, consult a map. Better use a new one as some have changed names recently.
Anyway, even in Afghanistan, everybody there is not and was not allied with Usama Bin Laden. He is from Saudi Arabia and that is yet another country you should learn about. Everybody there was not allied with him either, to include almost every member of his own family. I suggest you study something besides F9/11.
When you and your Jefferson Brigade fellows join your brothers from Iran to kick out the impearilist Americans, remember, they are not Arabs, they are Persians and usually speak Farsi. Yes, there is more than one language in the Orient. Make sure you tell them that you are an infidel. That is a powerful term for peace loving insurgents.
I know, I am not bright enough to explain all of this to you, but I hope this is a good start. Let me know how things go on that M113 "tank" in Baghdad!
