links for 2011-09-24

"The Hershey Chocolate Company had decided to staff its chocolate plant with 400 foreign students from as far away as China and Turkey. These students had come in expecting a cultural exchange, instead they were being treated like captive workers," says Saket Soni, Director of the National Guest Worker Alliance.

This is not about these women wanting things; it's about men wanting to see them do things, and that takes something that really should be empowering — the idea that women can own their sexuality — and transforms it into yet another male fantasy. It takes away the actual power of the women and turns their "sexual liberation" into just another way for dudes to get off. And that is at least ten times as gross as regular cheesecake, minimum.
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