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What I've Been Reading: 5/20/13

May 20, 2013 20:08

Since I haven't done a linkdump in a while, I figure I might as well do one now. There's a lot here, so it's all under a cut, with very little commentary of my own unless it helps clarify what the article is about. Enjoy! ^_^;

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Re: I lost all my favorite icons :( quadruplify May 22 2013, 01:50:12 UTC

I would add to this criticism that just about every movie I've watched where the protagonist(s) was/were gay, the movie is a) a coming of age story, b) about discrimination and fighting discrimination or a combination of the two, which gets old. There are very good films that fall into each of these tropes but I would for once, just like to see a typical movie that's like other movies, just with gay characters. Like a romantic comedy or a nice period piece or something, IDK.

Nothing to add; I just agree with this 110%. ;-)

And yeah, Milk is actually a really good movie; you should go see it!

I've never had any issue with sex work as long as it is something the sex worker chooses for her/himself.

I agree with this as well. As for being the one paying for sex, though, I guess if a guy really wanted to do it, he should be absolutely certain the person he's paying chose his/her line of work out of choice and not out of force. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of johns don't really care, which I'm sure is partly why they're stigmatized so much (and rightly so, if they're having sex with trafficked workers, or if they abuse/try to kill sex workers).

And thanks for the rec; it sounds really interesting, even if he does have a few questionable ideas.

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