It was only that polite because I figured being rude at this point would be counter-productive, but she's absolutely full of crap. She clearly spends her life looking for ways to cry "male domination and patriarchy OMG!". It's like the facebook group a friend of mine just joined: "Pornography is inherently abusive to women". Bullshit, that's just 'bad American pornography' that makes a virtue of being abusive to women. Just because 80% of the industry is too unimaginative to stop pandering to neanderthals doesn't mean that images of sex aimed at men or women are inherently abusive to either.
Firefly makes a lot of arguments for Companions giving prostitution some respectability, and for the act itself not to be inherently damaging. And at the same time it shows the training schools, and the rough outback whorehouses. It never shies away from the fact that these people are being trained to make others happy (including fine arts, geisha teamaking etc) as a commercial service and from a worryingly young age.
But to see the *relationships* as sexist in that particular series takes a degree of blindness that is quite stunning.
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Date: 2008-Mar-26, Wednesday 06:42 (UTC)Firefly makes a lot of arguments for Companions giving prostitution some respectability, and for the act itself not to be inherently damaging. And at the same time it shows the training schools, and the rough outback whorehouses. It never shies away from the fact that these people are being trained to make others happy (including fine arts, geisha teamaking etc) as a commercial service and from a worryingly young age.
But to see the *relationships* as sexist in that particular series takes a degree of blindness that is quite stunning.