Folks saw that hashtag and immediately asked, “What the fuck?” No pun intended on the fuck part.
But that’s what folks were thinking. Here, you have the Me Too hashtag and the women folks and the men folks talking about their experiences of being sexually harassed and or rape and the psychological, emotional effect on them and their love ones.
And then Twitter turns around and decides to let trend a hashtag called Questions for Prostitutes.
Anybody who’s been living long enough and has good sense about himself/herself knows that prostitution is a field that reduces the being down to an object to be used for the mere emotional satisfaction of another person.
It turns the human body into a tool for pimps and Johns to use as they see fit. Prostitution is a dehumanizing field of work that has claimed women and men as its victims.
These folks find themselves in this unfortunate line of work not by their choosing, but due to a criminal and or criminal organization forcing them into it.
Or, in other cases, folks take up prostitution because the economy is so bad that it is the quickest way for them to get the extra money they need in order to pay the bills.
Mind you, prostitution is not a field that is only occupied by the uneducated, poor class of folks.
It is a field with educated folks as well. But most importantly, prostitution is one of the oldest and most demoralizing professions there is because it reduces our fellow human beings down to mere objects to be used for the gratification of another.
Below are some tweets about Twitter’s decision to let trend the hashtag Questions for Prostitutes.
#QuestionsForAProstitute What asshole created this hashtag? Please identify yourself so I can block you.
— Rachel Wolf (@iamrachelwolf) December 29, 2017
#QuestionsForAProstitute is trending. Let’s be honest here, this hashtag is perpetuating sexism.
— Cheyenne (@57cheyenne) December 29, 2017
Let’s stop demonizing all women.
okay i'm done reading #QuestionsForAProstitute hashtag. Its fucking disgusting and humiliating for anyone who has ever worked in the industry. I fucking hate humanity right now.
— KateOnTheGo (@KateOnTheGo) December 29, 2017
Why are sexual harassment tags like these STILL a thing after all 2017 has shown us? Cut it the fuck out twitter #QuestionsForAProstitute
— Katie (@AGirlsNameIsKT) December 29, 2017
Sex workers are people too
Sex workers are people too
Sex workers are people too
Sex workers are people too
Y’all don’t know what happened to these people for them to end up in that position. Why is this even a hashtag? #QuestionsForAProstitute
— Priya Devayani (@hennyponderocks) December 29, 2017
#QuestionsForAProstitute
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) December 29, 2017
Are you a victim of human trafficking?
If you are a victim or know someone who is please call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
Some other questions to ask are in the graphic. pic.twitter.com/dcFkKEkFkG
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