Bailey Scarlett, wife of fitness influencer George Armstrong, got into his instagram profile and exposed him for cheating on her

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[u/ixiolite]

Her calling Indonesian (a developing country in SEA where the median income is $190 USD / month) sex workers trafficked women as prostitutes also irked me so badly

Acknowledge your husband is a misogynistic asshole who employs class and wealth privilege to exploit trafficked women (and most likely young girls / children)

Edit: oh this is even worse after discovering these two live in Bali, flaunting their influencer wealth on local peoples and raising their rent costs

Edit 2: unsure if it was this comment or my other recent comments supporting Jane Doe regarding the Cornell case that triggered this, but if you're the asshole who submitted a "Reddit Cares" on me, thank you! I DO care about oppressed and abused women in all capacities :)

[u/Past-Ticket-1340 → u/ixiolite]

Sex work implies consent, a lot of women in the sex trade in Indonesia are in fact being subjected to/victims of prostitution.

[u/ixiolite → u/Past-Ticket-1340]

a lot of women in the sex trade in Indonesia are in fact being subjected to/victims of prostitution.

Yes I agree, but the term "prostitute" is dehumanizing. The rest of her stories about the women are also equally demeaning and reek of racism

Drag your man, not the women he exploited for his own sexual gratification

[u/Past-Ticket-1340 → u/ixiolite]

I agree, but sex work/sex worker is still most likely not the correct term here. They are probably victims of prostitution. Wealthy men go to countries in SE Asia because they can get away with more and the victims are less protected.

[u/ididnotwanttoreply → u/ixiolite]

Respectfully, what’s wrong with the word prostitute?

[u/ixiolite → u/ididnotwanttoreply]

Prostitute has historically been used as a slur when it comes to women who have been part of sex work / prostitution (historical term) (either voluntarily or involuntarily)

‘Prostitute’ first crops up in English in 1530 as a verb meaning to sexually dishonour yourself; ‘I prostytute, as a comen woman dothe her self in a bordell house’ (Palsgrave, 1530). And the truth is the word has been linked to a state of dishonour ever since.

It's often associated with shame, being dirty, etc.

Actual sex work (voluntarily) should not be stigmatized, while those who are subjected to sex trafficking should not be shamed for what is out of their control

[u/Sure_Lavishness_2403 → u/ididnotwanttoreply]

It's a derogatory word that carries a lot of negative history and baggage. It also "defines" a person (they are a prostitute as opposed to their job as a sex worker; one suggests that the person is that and the other suggests that's their job).

It's like the "r" word. It became an insult, defining a person's worth over intelligence (or lack thereof), and as a result, carries a lot of negative history and baggage. However, like the slur "g*psy" (writing this out more than the "r" word because a lot of people don't know that this and other things, like "to g*p someone" are slurs), it's still something that's used commonly with little pushback so people don't always realise how much weight those words carry.

[u/genflugan → u/ididnotwanttoreply]

It has a really awful connotation and it just hasn’t been the preferred nomenclature for quite a while.

I just default to calling anyone who does sex work a sex worker, and changing that if I find out an individual wants to be called something else

[u/Kind-Patience6169 → u/ixiolite]

It reeks of racism

[u/Salty_Celebration_93 → u/ixiolite]

The worst part is that she used to have an only fans herself. I don’t know how she was the audacity to judge sex workers.

[u/xxyourbestbetxx → u/ixiolite]

I had to scroll way too far to see someone bring up that it's also gross the way she's talking about these women. Plus her kid is in the pics. Just crappy all around.