.@JoyceCarolOates Because I'd never done sex work, I didn't understand the proposition. He took my confusion to escalate his demand.
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The racialized ways in which women of color are harassed are made invisible by people like
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@JoyceCarolOates And that alone is a form of violence. You, making me and my friends invisible? That's harassment. -
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@JoyceCarolOates You, assuming that me and my friends are always already criminal? That's harassment, too. -
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@JoyceCarolOates I'm back, with two addenda. -
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@JoyceCarolOates wrote that men "freely & without incident." Black and brown men don't. See stop-and-frisk. -
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@JoyceCarolOates Also: I wrote earlier that I didn't understand what the white man was propositioning because I hadn't done sex work. -
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@JoyceCarolOates By writing that I hadn't done sex work, I was low key attaching myself to some kind of respectability. Fuck that. -
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@JoyceCarolOates There's an implicit way in which I was attaching an inherent value to myself because I wasn't a sex worker. -
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@JoyceCarolOates And that inherent value relies on the inherent devaluing of sex workers. And for that, I apologize. -
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@JoyceCarolOates The other thing attached to this: I still found a way to blame myself for this rich white man attacking me on Park Ave. -
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@JoyceCarolOates I wrote "bc I didn't understand..." No. It wasn't up to me understand shit. It was up to that white man to not attack me. -
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@JoyceCarolOates Even in trying to claim and finally make public one of my street harassment stories, I still blamed myself. -
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@JoyceCarolOates But I'm letting that go. I was a teenage girl in a dress on Park Avenue. And I deserved to be treated like a human being. - 1 more reply
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