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OSS 117 said:
I don't agree with that at all. Dancing in your underwear is very different from screwing old men for money.
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And further more..I said Sex Worker. Period. I did not say prostitute. That's in your own head. Escorts get paid on the premise they "might" have sex with the payor. I never said anyone did. But being a part of selling the illusion of sex is still sex work.
 
Ford needs to stop using black people as a prop. A prop that he says he speaks for and is "helping," but in reality, he continues to perpetuate a denigrating stereotype.

Not only is he perpetuating it, he is creating a fictitious lie of black Canadians. Especially to an American audience where crack cocaine is synonymous with black characters like Tyrone Biggums. (If anyone needed proof that Ford's behaviour screamed "crack addict," the last line of that sketch is the crack-rock that obliterated his glass house.)

I can't help but think about Orville Lloyd Douglas' article on how he hates being a black Canadian man in Toronto. Douglas holds many (personal) issues of black self-hatred, some brought on by the misrepresentation of black Canadians in Canadian society and media.

If I were a Black Torontonian riding the subway, I would be more concerned that people did not want to sit next to me not because I was black, but because I (supposedly) supported Rob Ford.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/christopher-stuart-taylor/rob-ford-black-community_b_4302874.html
 
Sun News kills Ford Nation TV show after one episode
Ford Nation is dead - on Sun News, at least.

Less than 24 hours after its debut on Monday night, the conservative cable news channel axed Ford Nation, its highly touted TV talk show starring Rob and Doug Ford, despite record ratings for the network.

Sun News had announced the show only last Thursday, saying it would provide a regular outlet for the Fords to speak directly to both supporters and detractors.
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While Ford Nation pulled about 155,000 viewers, according to overnight ratings, it is a victim of the brutal economics of cable TV and the Fords’ relative inexperience with the medium: Monday’s episode took five hours to record, and another eight hours to edit, making it an unusually expensive endeavour for a niche network that is in only about 40 per cent of Canadian households.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/x/article15511486/

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Anna said:
Sun News kills Ford Nation TV show after one episode
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While Ford Nation pulled about 155,000 viewers, according to overnight ratings, it is a victim of the brutal economics of cable TV and the Fords’ relative inexperience with the medium: Monday’s episode took five hours to record, and another eight hours to edit, making it an unusually expensive endeavour for a niche network
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Of course, a live show wouldn't have those problems -- I wonder why SNN was so gun-shy about just turning a camera on and let Rob be Rob. Perhaps they were worried about liability?
 
Tulse said:
Seriously, I'm unclear as to the distinction you're making. Sure, some folks may think of Victoria's Secrets models as more "classy" in some way than women who hawk raffle tickets in skimpy clothes, but there are plenty of women who have jobs that require them to dress in sexy outfits. Are Hooters servers sex workers? Are the "booth babes" at car shows and conventions sex workers? What are the criteria here?
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I don't care what the accepted P.C definition is but if your only role is to prop up your tits to sell Product A and especially when the only product is your tits..you're a sex worker.
 
Tulse said:
Seriously, I'm unclear as to the distinction you're making. Sure, some folks may think of Victoria's Secrets models as more "classy" in some way than women who hawk raffle tickets in skimpy clothes, but there are plenty of women who have jobs that require them to dress in sexy outfits. Are Hooters servers sex workers? Are the "booth babes" at car shows and conventions sex workers? What are the criteria here?
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to be fair, the VS models are selling the underwear they are wearing. A potential buyer needs to see what it looks like on a body (even if your body is not even 1/100th as perfect :( ) they are not gratuitously in underwear.

But I wouldn't call a girl in her underwear sitting on top of a sports car in a car ad a sex worker, either; even if I don't like that sort of advertising.
 
manhandler said:
So if he was a regular at a strip club that went there and did lines with the stripper that is okay?
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Is what okay? Are strippers okay? I guess. Are prostitutes okay? I guess---they've been around long enough, so there's probably a need for them. Is one the same as the other? Uh, no?
 
manhandler said:
I don't care what the accepted P.C definition is but if your only role is to prop up your tits to sell Product A and especially when the only product is your tits..you're a sex worker.
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Is this like that one time where Rob Ford had his own definition of what a "conflict of interest" was?
 
manhandler said:
And further more..I said Sex Worker. Period. I did not say prostitute. That's in your own head. Escorts get paid on the premise they "might" have sex with the payor. I never said anyone did. But being a part of selling the illusion of sex is still sex work.
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You don't get to decide what the definition of sex worker is. It's commonly understood that it refers to a prostitute. By that loose definition a Hooters waitress is a sex worker.
 
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