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11/21/08
That being said, why are we still talking about this girl? Once again proving the old adage that if you are press hungry enough, you will find a way to become a star for 15 minutes.
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Of course Eliot took/broke the vows. Of course Elliot willingly cheated and is to blame for the bulk of its consequences.
But to pretend an escort, or any one sleeping with a married man, has zero blame is oversimplification.
I think it's a similar tangential relationship, like a drug dealer and an overdose victim, or even an arms dealer taking no responsiblity for the acts of the terorists that use their guns. True these enablers may not be the ones doing the direct harm or the direct damage, but their is a moral responsiblilty when you know your actions could lead to another's harm and you exploit that relationship instead of taking action (to the extent that you are able)to prevent the harm.
In short: Elliot's shittiness does not negate the fact that Ashley is still an ASSHOLE.
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I can think she's an spoiled idiot AND think this circus reflects poorly on "journalists" at the same time.
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Saying you're just doing your job, when your job is actually illegal, isn't much of a defense.
How is it a different argument than 'I didn't shoot that kid, I just sold the gun that shot the kid?'
They are both culpable, just in varying degrees.
11/21/08
My issue with it now is that Ashley Dupre is now fully aware of the situation and has to assume that the renewed media attention will bring additional pain to Silda Spritzer and open up wounds that are still healing. I guess I just think she could be a little more compassionate and knock off the "poor me" interviews and discussing Silda with the media. Just a little bit of compassion for another woman who you know has been through a lot.
And for the record, I see no correlation between this situation and guns or drugs!
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In the case of women who are forced into prostitution for whatever reason (addiction, trafficking etc), I am less comfortable assuming they should bear responsibility because they never chose to be engaging in that activity in the first place. But I think it's pretty clear Dupre is not one of those women.
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i tend to think her PR people got on the phone and called every news outlet in the country to get her some publicity out of it. really, the news about spitzer not facing charges was a news blip.
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Escort = a man or woman who is hired to accompany another person as a companion, especially to a social event or entertainment
She's trying to make herself sound like a goomah or somethin' and she ain't his 'girfriend' investing 'time' with him. She's meeting his arse at a hotel to do the nasty.....then spend time with his money.
She needs to simply dissapear, her opinion doesn't matter a bit, nor does her regret. The name Silda wouldn't even escape her slag lips if she had any respect whatsoever.....but whatevs, she's after her 15 minutes, right???
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Ashley, if you want to redeem yourself, shut the fuck up, go to college and get a job like a normal person.
This is just whoring of a different type. I have no sympathy.
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Having to answer uncomfortable questions about Silda is just a byproduct of journalists having NOTHING else to ask her since she is largely irrelevant (as a news item, not as a human being)and shouldn't be featured in the national news anyway.
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I guess I just don't think her "agency" in this situation negates the fact that the interest in Dupre is driven by a culture that hates sex workers at the same time that it normalizes and glamourizes sex work. To get all grad school on ya.
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No. You just can't win that. She was doing a job- she is not responsible for anything or anyone in the john's life.
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Our society loves a sex scandal. Period.
If she had been a male escort, interest in the story would still exist so it's not solely about our discomfort with a woman's sexuality.
Not saying slut-shaming isn't a problem, just saying it's not at the root of Ashley's appeal.
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I would guess escorting has a fair amount of "mind fuck" involved which street prostitution does not.
Just my take on it...
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I'm just baffled by her self centeredness and complete lack of curiousity about the part of the world that can't be bought and worn as a status symbol.
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