Sex workers who threatened to out Politicians using sex workers disappointed Politicians aren’t working fast enough for them (plus Stephanie Rodgers pole-dancing for the Greens)
Sex workers who only last month threatened to out Politicians who secretly used their services…
A third stripper named Melody, who was also fired from Calendar Girls, dedicated her speech to MPs.
“Sex workers are keepers of a menagerie of secrets. We value discretion – so we don’t name names – but we know just how many members of this Parliament and other government officials from across the political spectrum frequent our establishments. And I’m certain that you all have a hunch too,” she said.
“So, dear MPs, to know your colleagues are accessing our services and then to turn around and act as if this has nothing to do with you is both wildly hypocritical and deeply irresponsible.”
…are this week unhappy those very same politicians haven’t moved fast enough to give them the rights of workers AND contractors.
A position no one else in NZ gets to claim.
The Greens (and the Unions) have embraced this campaign by sex workers to gain the rights of workers AND contractors because politically the Green and the Unions no longer see Free Market Capitalism as the enemy, they see heteronormative white cis males as the enemy and sex workers are a radical disruption to the patriarchy.
Or something.
The Greens Com team see the below image as ‘winning’.
Wow.
Of course sex workers must be safe in work environments and the testimony to date highlights a spitefulness on behalf of employers that can not and must not be tolerated, but let’s not pretend that the legal element of sex work means it is some great feminist symbol of empowerment. We made sex work legal for the same reasons we make gambling legal, because if you leave it in an illegal environment it only empowers organised crime and makes everyones existence far more dangerous.
I celebrate legal sex work as a triumph of good social policy, but there are not many parents who look at their children and hope they will have a great career as sex workers are there?
So the weird embrace by the Greens and the Unions is woke virtue signalling rather than legislative action and no where can that virtue signalling be seen better than former Standard Blogger and Green Party candidate for Ohariu, Stephanie Rodgers…
Pole-dancing campaign launch for Green Ōhāriu candidate to ‘keep it fun’
Pole-dancing is not often used to launch political campaigns, but it seemed like a natural fit to Stephanie Rodgers – public servant, part-time pole dancing teacher, and Green candidate for the Wellington electorate of Ōhāriu.
“I don’t think any electorate has seen a pole show campaign launch before,” said Rodgers.
After discussion with her campaign manager they landed on the idea of hosting pole show at Wellington’s Fringe Bar as a way to bring Rodger’s passion for pole dancing and her political campaign together. The event on June 22 will be her campaign launch and a fundraiser.
She’s been pole dancing in her spare time for six years, and said the pole show was about bringing her full personality to politics.
…ummmm. Pole-dancing to raise election funds for the Green Party???
You can’t actually write satire this cynical.
In the words of the great Logan Roy…
..because the Greens have confused legal sex work as a noble means to undermine the patriarchy, pole-dancing is performance art to dismantle gender norms and counter toxic masculinity etc etc etc.
This just isn’t a serious attempt at politics any longer.
I’ve voted Green all my life and if you had told me a candidate would be pole-dancing to raise election funds, I would have punched you in the mouth for slander.
Yet here we are.
How empowering.
Can we donate money for her to keep her cloths on?
The Greens have transitioned from a Broadchurch environmental party into a woke social justice clique and I think they will be very, very, very lucky to get 8% this election.
This image below is the Green Party in 2023 and I’m being as polite as I can be.
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Are they this concerned about construction workers being ripped off? Or nurses? Or cheap imported labour on the large corporate farms?
Perhaps I just didn’t hear about it. But they haven’t done much to reverse the situation, and certainly haven’t seriously chased the votes of such people. At least Labour briefly had the policy of restoring the Award System (although not universal trade union membership), before the donors ensured that they dumped it.
The Greens are sex and gender nutters, apart from one or two of them; few more normal persons are particularly interested about politicians using prostitutes and all blackmail is odious, whether they realise that or not.
Which one or two aren’t sex and gender nutters (or is that queer and gender nutters)
Anker, James seems normal, no outlandish observations based on queer or gender either, Eugenie ditto, didn’t join in blaming white Kiwis for the terrible Muslim massacre and I think that that shocker was only Green girls; I keep forgetting the name of the one whose genderID preoccupations seem to have led to the sexualisation of school children and concerned parents liable to be imprisoned; Genter’s comment about old white males could have been ordinary woke-ish ageism or racism, Kerekere, whose ancestors’ colourful sex lives were allegedly wrecked by colonialists has found a niche elsewhere, ditto good man Gareth Hughes found himself a safe harbour in the Deep South, he used to do the supermarket shop with his kiddies like regular dads do, and I guess it’s normal for lesbians to enjoy girls’ nights out at the Splash Club while police try to prevent a gang fight on Courtney Place and pop out to speak to them about it; a couple of them celebrated the perturbing Albert Park women clobbering as pure trans joy which seems decidedly odd to me, but the PM said he was sorry he hadn’t joined in himself, so there we are.
Pole dancing pollies. May be instead of debates all the women from the various parties could have a dance off or a strip off or just ask for votes based on whose the hottest.
Aaargh! Quick nurse, get the screens…
Not sure who is the more Tawdry. The politicians or the workers.
So what do the greens actually do other than play all day every day with our tax dollars. From this day on I have no interest to even comment on them me thinks. They are beyond a joke. The mute is always ready for the greens.
How is she polling?
One of the main reasons for legalising sex work was to enable workers to stay free from AIDS; police had started to question the carrying of condoms and hygiene equipment with them. A mean attitude by some police but some get very keen on the letter of the law. Hence raiding old ladies homes for death-dealing equipment they might use when deciding on euthanasia. Even setting up false stands outside inforrmation meetings to test for alcohol use and taking people’s details, so getting relevant addresses.
Isn’t pole dancing supposed to be erotic referring to erect members? Not maypole dancing! So why are our pollies showing themselves up to be ambivalent of their actual calling?
Have been cynical about SR since she more or less stopped doing her “Boots Theory’ stuff a few years ago, That was worthwhile, but this is just exhibitionism. I don’t think she’s high enough on the list to get anywhere?
If you want to out pollies for visiting sex workers, aren’t you acknowledging an element of shame to what you do?
I don’t think legalising prostitution did much for the women involved, but probably a lot for the pimps.
We should adopt the Nordic model which helps women leave the “industry”.
For me prostitution is the ultimate in dehumanising of women
Anker It’s sometimes lack of choice. Women shackled in abusive marriages can be in much the same position, and don’t forget that it’s only comparatively recently, historically, that husband rape has been recognised as a criminal offence and not a marital right. The poverty stricken girls exiting poor troubled Ireland in search of better lives frequently ended up as waitresses or prostitutes in Liverpool, or Mercy nuns crying at night at the bottom of the world. They used to be actively recruited to come to New Zealand. East Europeans and Asian girls get lured to other countries with promises of work which they never anticipated or wanted. It’s a dirty world.
Druggies will do anything. Some hookers have a different perspective. A mature student boasted to me that she didn’t have to do tax returns, working in a brothel/massage parlour; she’d been sexually abused by her father. She gave topless massages to Wellington males. Some students seek sugar daddies. Legalising prostitution meant women, and they were mainly women, didn’t get criminalised for supporting themselves. Meghan Markle, advises that her mother said never give the milk away for free.
That last image was horrific. What in Hods name did that poor pole do to deserve that? Is there such a crime as cruelty to a pole. No? There ought to be!
X-ray. New Year’s Eve, 1990, following the first Three Tenors Concert, I think from Rome, TVNZ featured Madonna performing a particularly crude pole dance. I phoned in a complaint saying it was inappropriate programming for an occasion when whole families were likely to be viewing television. It’s now an accepted entry in talent contests, and I think, a college course. Guess it all began biblically, with Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veil’s, in return for the head of a man. She must have been a Green.