If you're using race as a proxy for wealth (e.g., black ppl tend to be poorer and the poverty is a disadvantage), then you should just use wealth, not race.
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This was legitimately surprising cause I'd been hearing black rooms talk about being disadvantaged and I sort of assumed this meant at least some of the girls, statistically speaking, would have been worse off than me.
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But no, one had quit a six figure job cause sex work was doing better for her, another had done it just for fun as a side gig, another was in a secure life and her boyfriend urged her to try it. Every single one of them was wealthier and had more options than I'd had.
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But in those conversations, the fact I was homeless and sleeping on a friend's couch was irrelevant, because I'm white. Whiteness is privilege, so the disadvantages of my poverty weren't meaningful or tied into any broader narrative. Nobody in that room said anything about it.
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are you happy that you did?
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Yes, immensely!
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Maybe being a black sex worker is just extra hard for some reason, to the point that you'll rarely find one who isn't privileged in other ways. Likely a minor selection effect, but in the worst case could be literal survivorship bias.
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For example you mentioned before that black customers are not as good as white ones. If only high status black people get to hang out with wealthy white people, then a poor black person is going to have terrible customers and might have to quit the job for something even worse.
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