I can’t say I am familiar with porn stars as I probably should be. Carter Cruise is trying to become a big DJ. She is also apparently a very well known porn star (according to what I’ve seen via her Tumblr). She read what we read about Krewella and Deadmau5 responding to each other. She agreed with what we agreed with on how sexism isn’t cool. What she didn’t like is how Johan Yousaf made a remark about porn stars. Like I said in the Twitter account, it was a terrible click-bait titled that shouldn’t have even been focused on especially when dealing with an article due to sexism. Here is a small bit of Carter’s article. Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing here.
I am subjected, daily, to the same type of hate Yousef is now experiencing; not because of a highly publicized lawsuit, but simply because of who I am and what I do for a living. The media might only pretend that sexism is a thing of the past, but it doesn’t even attempt to do the same with sex work. There is an obvious stigma attached to sex work that rivals even the ones Yousef discusses such as gender, sexual orientation, and alternative lifestyles.
So Jahan, as a fellow woman, and someone who knows exactly what you are experiencing, I wanted to point out something you may not have considered, simply because you couldn’t possibly without having first hand knowledge of being a sex worker. No matter how hard I actually work, the fact is, the majority of people look at my job and say, “wow, you’re taking the easy way out, being a whore for money.” This is pretty difficult to listen to when I KNOW how hard I work and how much I care about what I do.