why I am sometimes unimpressed with the local activist dramas

[indifferenthues]

I get worried e-mails like this:

In a message dated 12/18/2008 12:07:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, XXXXXX@gmail.com writes:

We are doing a report on (mainly American) Christian organisations working in "rescuing" Cambodian sex workers and forcing them to convert to Christianity

Comments

[donnalee_kiss]

Um....the women need to be rescued by having someone take them out of that environment, not convert them!

[indifferenthues]

Most of the people don't actually want to have "someone take them out of that environment, the people sending this out are their Union!

For many people in many places being a sex worker is an honest, freely chosen profession. In some places in the world it doesn't actually carry the stigma it does in places controlled by the fundamentalist sects of the "big three" Abrahamic Religions, (Judaism, Christianity and Islam).

And in some places being a Sex worker is considered a kind, holy and helpful religiously sanctioned professions, kind of being a nurse and/or social worker.

I mean do you want to be "rescued" from being bisexual? No? Well these people don't want to be "rescued" either.

People ought to at a minimum ASK and listen respectfully to the answers.

[donnalee_kiss]

Oh, I was assuming they were like many women I've heard about who end up in prostitution by nefarious means. Sorry for my ignorance about this country.

That said, I can't stand conversion tactics of religious types anyway.