Discussion on Women's Empowerment in Work

If, if a woman has any business sense or any savvy whatsoever, she can,

she can, she can manage her own business, place, place her own ads and, and, and

keep it,

uh, and keep it all for herself. To me, what's demeaning

is, um,

someone,

for example, that I know very well with a law degree,

uh,

working in an office and being a coffee gofer.

Uh, that is demeaning. Is it- it's, it's demeaning to

f- it's, it's demeaning to, to flip burgers for,

you know, seven or eight dollars an hour

or something like that.

I, I, I mean, if you talk about exploitation,

prostitution or sex work comes pretty far down the list.

There are a lot of people

on welfare working minimum wage jobs who are, like,

totally relentlessly, horribly exploited all the time.

I'm not saying that, that, that

a prostitute can't or isn't exploited, but it's

... Sex work is like any other work, any other industry.

Um,

it's a continuum. It's, it's, a

... Uh, it's, it's a spectrum.

Do you have a dollar for a light?

Uh, no, I don't, sweetie.

Sorry.

That's a ...

Asking for a light is a ...

Could be someone asking for a light.

Uh, but it's also

in that case an opening for-

Yeah

... to start a con- to sort of start a conversation.

Um, that said, not every woman in Kensington is

a, is a prostitute. I mean,

sometimes even in Kensington a woman

standing on a street corner is actually is

waiting for the bus.