22 June 2006

Kinsella hits one out of the park in today's Post column. Unfortunately, it is behind the paid wall, but if he puts up a link on his site I'll be sure to include it. Major kudos to him for slamming yet another hypocritical self-defined "feminist" journal that claims it is against oppression yet devotes its back pages to prostitution, which, the last time I looked, was exploitation. A brief but excellent quote:

"Some might hesitate to call what Torstar is doing “pimping” — you know, people with power procuring whores for dirty old men — but across town, at the offices of rival Toronto weekly Now, editor Alice Klein cheerfully admits that, yes, indeed, the prostitution advertising in Eye and Now helps to eliminate the unsavoury pimping middlemen."

Right, get rid of the "unsavoury pimping middlemen" so that the young women can go directly to the unsavoury exploiting johns. Today's article is just one of the many reasons that I like Kinsella.

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