tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633621665763939304.post7170007969929576267..comments2024-03-11T06:12:02.296-05:00Comments on The Great God Pan Is Dead: Is the Houston Chronicle's Art Critic Trying to Get Himself Fired? Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633621665763939304.post-50567671682658771842011-11-28T11:12:04.155-06:002011-11-28T11:12:04.155-06:00I used the word "escort" because Britt-D...I used the word "escort" because Britt-Darby did--he also distinguished between escorts who are prostitutes and those who aren't (admittedly a distinction I don't quite get). If it were a woman who had made this video and she had used the word "escort," I would have done the same. As for holding it against him--well, I am a little freaked out by his admission. But I really do judge writers by their writing, not their biographies. In any case, I recently did another post about a woman, Emily Moran Barwick, who is a sex worker (she's a stripper) and uses her experience as part of her art. I don't think I came off as judgmental in that post--but I guess that's for other people to decide. You can read it here (http://thegreatgodpanisdead.blogspot.com/2011/11/lapdance-scholarship-nsfw.html). Robert Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633621665763939304.post-82204710595890546782011-11-28T10:58:50.244-06:002011-11-28T10:58:50.244-06:00Even as a gay man, he's got lots of white male...Even as a gay man, he's got lots of white male privilege to fall back on. Male sex workers aren't looked down upon in the same way because men are allowed to be sexual. They're expected to be sexual. It's that whole "men are wired for this shit" crap. The word 'whore' doesn't stick in the same way.<br /><br />Even here you're calling him an 'escort'. I bet if this was a woman you'd use the word 'prostitute'. <br /><br />Can't imagine anyone holding this against him. If he was a woman it'd be a different story. <br /><br />Gotta love that white male privilege.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com