Commodification Ahoy!: Sexism in South Carolina State Government
Here's a pretty old legacy post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 23 years ago, in 2001, on the World Wide Web.
Commodification ahoy: State House leaders in South Carolina recently told a Boys’ State class that the money saved through financial aid from the state lottery program could buy a lot of beer and girls
[Feminist Majority Foundation News Wire]. Gee, with that attitude (and other events of overt sexual harassment) what a surprise that South Carolina ranks lowest in the nation for women holding statewide office.
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“Commodification ahoy: State House leaders in South Carolina recently told a Boys� State class that the money saved through financial aid from the state lottery program could buy a lot of beer and girls”
I love the way that the same people who support laws which stigmatize, imprison and make life difficult for those of us girls in the habit of being bought always feel free to cheat on their own patriarchal ethics- it’s often like they don’t really object to prostitution so much as they object to the public, visible existence of any sexuality that threatens their little paterfamilias keeps and castles. But breaking their own rules when it doen’t threaten the system, only wives who trusted master to keep his promises… well, that’s a different story.
Those in power make prohibitions so that they can mopolize power over the things they prohibit. Such is the wealth of commisars.
Remind me not to accept any clients who identify themselves as South Carolina legislators.
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