maybe most parents genuinely want what’s best for children! but if we’re at the point where anyone who is or ever has been a sex worker should be banned from working in education because that’ll make parents feel better, we need to start analyzing what that most means, and whether parents feelings matter more than the actual real world safety of their children. and let me tell you, i do not trust that parents are reasonable people who can be persuaded that they might be wrong about how they raise their children! obviously some are, but my experience is more often exactly the opposite
i cannot see why having a sex worker employed at a school would be a risk. sex workers aren’t more likely to abuse or groom children than any other group of people. and when the risk is “parents would be unhappy” then we get into the point where that exact same logic gets used against queer people, or people of color, or any other marginalized group
and i cannot stress enough: CHILDREN ARE ALREADY GOING TO HAVE ACCESS TO PORN! A TEACHER BEING A SEX WORKER DOES NOT MAKE CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO ACCESS SEXUAL MATERIAL! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! the healthy way to deal with this is to simply talk to children about sex like it’s a part of life (which it is) and not like it’s some mysterious thing they aren’t allowed to know about until they turn 18! i get that we can’t trust parents to talk about this with their kids, i agree. if we can’t trust parents to explain this to their kids why do we trust them to decide who teaches?
you agree there isn’t a safeguarding issue with a trans teacher, but where we disagree is that you do believe there’s a safeguarding issue with a teacher who is a sex worker on the side. why? a teacher who is a sex worker isn’t going to expose children to any more porn than they’d already see. a teacher who is a sex worker is not any more likely to be a predator. parents can deal with their feelings on their own, without firing someone who hasn’t done anything wrong*
*i mean in this specific case she’d done many things wrong but having an onlyfans wasn’t one of them
maybe most parents genuinely want what’s best for children! but if we’re at the point where anyone who is or ever has been a sex worker should be banned from working in education because that’ll make parents feel better, we need to start analyzing what that most means, and whether parents feelings matter more than the actual real world safety of their children. and let me tell you, i do not trust that parents are reasonable people who can be persuaded that they might be wrong about how they raise their children! obviously some are, but my experience is more often exactly the opposite
i cannot see why having a sex worker employed at a school would be a risk. sex workers aren’t more likely to abuse or groom children than any other group of people. and when the risk is “parents would be unhappy” then we get into the point where that exact same logic gets used against queer people, or people of color, or any other marginalized group
and i cannot stress enough: CHILDREN ARE ALREADY GOING TO HAVE ACCESS TO PORN! A TEACHER BEING A SEX WORKER DOES NOT MAKE CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO ACCESS SEXUAL MATERIAL! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! the healthy way to deal with this is to simply talk to children about sex like it’s a part of life (which it is) and not like it’s some mysterious thing they aren’t allowed to know about until they turn 18! i get that we can’t trust parents to talk about this with their kids, i agree. if we can’t trust parents to explain this to their kids why do we trust them to decide who teaches?
you agree there isn’t a safeguarding issue with a trans teacher, but where we disagree is that you do believe there’s a safeguarding issue with a teacher who is a sex worker on the side. why? a teacher who is a sex worker isn’t going to expose children to any more porn than they’d already see. a teacher who is a sex worker is not any more likely to be a predator. parents can deal with their feelings on their own, without firing someone who hasn’t done anything wrong*
*i mean in this specific case she’d done many things wrong but having an onlyfans wasn’t one of them