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Melissa Gira Grant
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Melissa Gira Grant
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Melissa Gira Grant

@melissagira

Journalist (@TheNation, @Buzzfeed, @Vice, @Guardian), author (Playing The Whore: The Work of Sex Work), columnist (@PacificStand). 'quite scary' - Telegraph

Joined December 2006
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    Melissa Gira Grant ‏@melissagira 12 Sep 2015

    Sun-Times' @MaryMitchellCST writes that the rape of sex workers is not really rape (http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/952556/charges-send-mixed-messages-prostitution …)pic.twitter.com/lpl8R29wpY

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    12:35 PM - 12 Sep 2015
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      1. Prostitute Chicken ‏@gwynn_nell 12 Sep 2015

        @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST were capable of logic that is both so flawed and so incredibly cruel.

        5 retweets 17 likes
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      3. Prostitute Chicken ‏@gwynn_nell 13 Sep 2015

        @melissagira so used to jokes in that vein, so used to sex workers being less important, that they didn't bother thinking about it

        0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Melissa Gira Grant ‏@melissagira 13 Sep 2015

        @gwynn_nell totally -- it's one of those moments when the hate is so obvious you can barely believe it

        1 retweet 5 likes
      1. ProjectSAFE ‏@safephila 12 Sep 2015 Washington, DC

        @melissagira the logic of @MaryMitchellCST is not new, nor is it benign http://tinyurl.com/puxnzf2 http://tinyurl.com/nnokeer 

        10 retweets 9 likes
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      3. Tracy Harms ‏@kaleidic 12 Sep 2015

        @safephila @melissagira What a hideous failure to distinguish civil from criminal offense.

        0 retweets 3 likes
    1. Prostitute Chicken ‏@gwynn_nell 12 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST when I told my nonSW friends this gets said seriously they legit didn't believe me. They didn't realise ppl

      5 retweets 7 likes
      1. Ava the Almighty ‏@AvaGraceVIP 12 Sep 2015

        .@MaryMitchellCST why u think sex workers deserve to be attacked is beyond me.Victim-blaming is never ok. Focus on the attacker @melissagira

        0 retweets 6 likes
      2. Ava the Almighty ‏@AvaGraceVIP 12 Sep 2015

        @MaryMitchellCST I do hope you'll read this and see that you are no better and I am no worse than you. #sexworkisworkpic.twitter.com/nGV1k1YWbh

        3 retweets 8 likes
    2. julie lauren vick ‏@lila_engel 12 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST what kind of internal meanness leads people to create hierarchies for things like rape

      4 retweets 16 likes
    3. M.C. Mallet ‏@mar_de_palabras 12 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST This has to be one of the most reprehensible arguments I've ever heard of a newspaper publishing

      3 retweets 14 likes
    4. Travers(E) ‏@erictravers 13 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST You know what minimizes the act of rape? Saying it isnt rape because you don't like the victims profession.

      3 retweets 10 likes
    5. Krista Elliott ‏@elliottkrista 12 Sep 2015

      @melissagira That is disgusting and horrible. Non-consensual sex is rape. Full. Fucking. Stop. @sswb29 @MaryMitchellCST

      1 retweet 16 likes
    6. S.I. Rosenbaum ‏@sirosenbaum 12 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @marymitchellcst yick. Why is consent such a hard concept for people?

      2 retweets 5 likes
      1. nothings monstered ‏@nothingsmonstrd 12 Sep 2015

        @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST "it's tough to see [this woman] as a victim." Is the problem the woman or your seeing?

        2 retweets 15 likes
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    7. raincoaster ‏@raincoaster 13 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST also, bank tellers cannot be robbed. It's their job to give out money.

      1 retweet 5 likes
    8. sad! ‏@meaganrosae 12 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST this is utterly deplorable

      0 retweets 10 likes
      1. McCallister Crowley ‏@Occupocalypse 12 Sep 2015

        @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST it's just "theft of services" according to her.

        1 retweet 2 likes
      2. (((gina rienne))) ‏@ginmarrienne 12 Sep 2015

        @Occupocalypse @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST Jesus Fucking Christ.

        0 retweets 1 like
    9. Michael C ‏@chlomix7 12 Sep 2015

      @melissagira @MaryMitchellCST 5) given her consent via marriage & hasn't divorced. Now you go & think about that.

      1 retweet 3 likes

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