The argument for defending the commodification of women is that women possess the right to sell themselves. Yup, it’s a free country. And L.A. Weekly has the freedom to determine what ideas it chooses to promulgate and products it chooses to sell. Apparently, the Weekly chooses to be part of the problem by marketing the women in its back pages as subservient sluts with all the dignity of circus animals. How did the Weeklycome to draw the line between respecting nature and respecting a gender?
Lewis’ article on the conservation of Joshua Tree quotes a biologist emphasizing the “importance of connectivity” in saving the land. We need to remember that those women for sale are our sisters, mothers, daughters — as deserving, inspiring and fragile as anything else in this world.
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