Exploitation
| February 17th, 2008 | Crossposted from The Blog and the BulletBambu rants:
i recently got a myspace message from an old friend who had a little bit of a beef with me. she wanted to know why i was “knocking the hustle” of so many young pinays in the import model/go-go dancing game. she felt that by me trying to persuade young women (especially young women of color) away from standing next to vehicles at car shows, or dancing on a platform by speaking “ill” of them, i was hurting their pockets and not supporting my sisters.
hmmmm…
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my intention is never to make my sisters feel trashy, but it’s also not meant to sugar coat anything. we’ve been struggling and fighting for such a long time. i just want young people to understand what exploitation means and how many levels there are to being exploited.
i want everyone to celebrate their physical beauty! i want us as a people to be truly happy with our beautiful faces, our beautiful bodies and our wonderful culture!
February 17th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I left a comment at Jack’s blog. In summary I think there is worse sexual exploitation in the Philippines than modeling at an auto show.
I’m for unionization of models.
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