Commentary #9: Using Sexism to Promote Animal Rights
Update: 2009-10-21
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Dear Colleagues: Would Martin Luther King have had an “I’d Rather Go Naked than Sit in the Back of the Bus” campaign? Of course not. He would have recognized that such a campaign would trivialize the important message of civil rights. Why don’t animal advocates recognize that sexist campaigns similarly trivialize the issue of animal […]
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I agree that in the sex industry, bodies are commodified. Wouldn't you say that as a professor, your mind is commodified? A professor's clients, for instance students, only look at your performance as a teacher and pay for that. So in a similar way as with prostitutes or strippers the personhood is taken away. With that logic in mind, being a sex worker (by free will that is) is on the same moral ground as performing any other profession. One person has may have great mind and another may have a great body from which they may profit financially. So, for me, following this logic, your comparison doesn't work.