8.03 fiction
Tell New Yorker: Exploiting Prostituted Haitian Women Dying of HIV: Not Funny
Posted August 3rd, 2009 by sdiener in
- 5.02.09 countering xenophobia, racism, anti-immigrant bias
- 5.07.03 countering male domination and patriarchy
- 5.07.04 ending men's violence
- 5.07.05 women's health (see also 6.04)
- 5.09.01 countering dehumanizing propaganda
- 5.10.02 countering human trafficking
- 5.14.03 feminist pacifism
- 8.03 fiction
- Haiti
- HIV
- humor
- prostitution
- satire
Zev Borow wrote in a humor column about sunblock in the New Yorker:
"SPF 175—Ever wanted to have unprotected sex with a prostitute in Haiti? Don’t answer. Doesn’t matter. The point is with SPF 175 that’s now an option." Whoa. I think it's the pseudo-cool casualness of the misogyny and racism displayed here that outrages me most.
