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So today I made my website live for the book I’m writing about the 20 years I spent as an escort. I was never the Pretty Woman kind of sex worker. I was the mousey, “conversation” girl. That was what my first agency wrote on the 3″ by 5″ index card that had my measurements, age, height, and hair color on it. BUSTY, RED HEAD, CONVERSATIONS. I had some pretty awesome conversations.
I remember one with this drunk diabetic doctor who did Vedic Astrology in his spare time. He was like, “the biggest decision you’ll ever make is whether the world is for you or against you.” I remember it because at the time I thought the world was against me. I had a shitty boyfriend that shamed the fuck out of me. I’d spent the last 12 months in the 12 steps getting the courage to leave him, and now I was in a five star hotel suite with a grabby drunk doctor who tried earlier in the evening to pay me in shoes he bought at Marshalls.
It could be worse. Of course it could be worse. It could be a LOT worse. That itself made me wake the fuck up. This doc was sharing a little piece of wisdom at the time I least expected it. That’s one thing I absolutely love about escorting. Anything can happen. And, it’s surprisingly almost always good. For me at least. I know that isn’t everyone’s experience. That alone makes it book worthy.
“Dear Conscious Courtesan, Have you been the victim of slut shaming, and if so, what do you do about it?”
When I hear this question I almost instantly reframe it as this: What can I do about my own irritation at being judged and shamed?
There is nothing I can do about what other people think or say or do. People are free to have whatever opinions they want. I value freedom. I’m not going to try to control them or shame them back. I’m going to do something about my own actions, words, and thoughts so what others do doesn’t bother me.
This lady insults all women at one go: if you are larger than a C cup, you apparently are not modest. If you are are C cup or smaller, you are apparently “uninteresting.”
Hahahahaha! Sucks to live in Texas, where someone who believes these things is actually in public office.
So that specific article and all the articles that its spawned are satire. The thing is she did actually say the part about women with larger breasts thing. That politicops site is not good about being upfront about their satire. Took me more than a few minutes to parse this whole thing out, and really only because I have a friend that was living in Texas at the time did I even take a second look.
So to be clear she is no longer an elected official, and didn’t ever propose banning larger than a c cup, rather she said this while in opposition to a bill that would protect public breast feeding.
Thanks to conflictedintrovert for this update! I had done a bit of research myself and found an article about this lady in NY Magazine that corroborated some but not all claims here… clearly more thorough digging was required here. I feel a bit better about Texas now :-)
This lady insults all women at one go: if you are larger than a C cup, you apparently are not modest. If you are are C cup or smaller, you are apparently “uninteresting.”
Hahahahaha! Sucks to live in Texas, where someone who believes these things is actually in public office.
