JamesHunt
12-04-2009, 06:27 AM
Belle de Jour aka Dr Brooke Magnanti. Ex Escort recently outed for being a call girl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Jour_%28writer%29
# When someone says:
"I have too much respect for myself ever to do that."
What they mean is:
"My self-esteem is so fragile that stepping outside the mainstream would mess it up for life."
# When someone says:
"She's not even that good-looking."
What they mean is:
"This woman's choices make me uncomfortable but I don't have the intelligence to address that so will criticise her looks instead."
# When someone says:
"See? Other people in her family have problems. That explains everything."
What they mean is:
"In spite of the fact that all families have difficulties, I'm going to pretend otherwise in order to make an ad hominem attack."
# When someone says:
"Stories like this glamourise a trade that enslaves and kills women."
What they mean is:
"I don't actually know the difference between the separate issues affecting call girls, massage parlours, brothels, and streetwalkers, and I'm not going to bother finding out."
# When someone says:
"I wouldn't pay £300 for that."
What they mean is:
"I think a woman's value, sexual or otherwise, is entirely based on her looks."
# When someone says:
"I have similar factors in my life and didn't choose this route."
What they mean is:
"I am unfamiliar with the notion that free will more or less assures that people will makes decisions I would not have done."
# When someone says:
"If she liked the job so much why isn't she still doing it?"
What they mean is:
"I don't believe people can, or should, change direction in their lives without self-hatred and regret."
http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Jour_%28writer%29
# When someone says:
"I have too much respect for myself ever to do that."
What they mean is:
"My self-esteem is so fragile that stepping outside the mainstream would mess it up for life."
# When someone says:
"She's not even that good-looking."
What they mean is:
"This woman's choices make me uncomfortable but I don't have the intelligence to address that so will criticise her looks instead."
# When someone says:
"See? Other people in her family have problems. That explains everything."
What they mean is:
"In spite of the fact that all families have difficulties, I'm going to pretend otherwise in order to make an ad hominem attack."
# When someone says:
"Stories like this glamourise a trade that enslaves and kills women."
What they mean is:
"I don't actually know the difference between the separate issues affecting call girls, massage parlours, brothels, and streetwalkers, and I'm not going to bother finding out."
# When someone says:
"I wouldn't pay £300 for that."
What they mean is:
"I think a woman's value, sexual or otherwise, is entirely based on her looks."
# When someone says:
"I have similar factors in my life and didn't choose this route."
What they mean is:
"I am unfamiliar with the notion that free will more or less assures that people will makes decisions I would not have done."
# When someone says:
"If she liked the job so much why isn't she still doing it?"
What they mean is:
"I don't believe people can, or should, change direction in their lives without self-hatred and regret."
http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/