Want to play BINGO with the antis?

by Furry Girl

02.26.10

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I recently got some feedback on my blog that read like an auto-generated essay against porn and sex work, hitting all the key arguments that I've heard a thousand times, just rearranged in a different order.

It got me thinking, hasn't anyone made a bingo card about this yet?  Apparently not, so I made one, with my top 25 most irritating frequently addressed accusations.  (Click here to get a larger version so that you can print it out and play along at home.)

[Edit: Miss Renegade Evolution made a sex work bingo card about a year ago, which I missed.  Go see her version here.]





22 Comments »

  1. Love it! You have GOT to actually print these out and distribute them. We should offer sex worker bingo at the Desiree conference!

    Comment by Serpent — February 27, 2010 @ 12:05 am

  2. Beautiful! I'm so glad I stumbled into you. Definitely coming back to read more...

    Comment by Modern Hooker — February 27, 2010 @ 1:20 am

  3. Speaking of the whole 'performing our jobs out of altruism', I'm actually constantly and insanely happy about the fact that _my_ day job is one that I would spend time on even without a salary for it. I am also very aware of how relatively fragile this state of being is (academia is a VICIOUS field to build a career in).

    But then again, this much will hold true for anyone who is sufficiently passionate about what they do - and I imagine certainly for more than a few sex workers.

    Comment by Mikael Vejdemo Johansson — February 27, 2010 @ 2:17 am

  4. This is brilliant! I love it! When confronted by antis who believe our lives are literally impossible as we experience them, you can either laugh or cry. Laugh is better. I owe you a tube of vegan lip balm, thanks.

    Comment by Juline — February 27, 2010 @ 11:07 am

  5. This is so goddamn good, I can't tell if I want to frame it, cover it in chocolate and eat it or just take it on the bus and sit next to a stranger and offer to play.

    Either way, you've set a new high bar, fg.

    -arvan

    Comment by sexgenderbody — February 28, 2010 @ 12:55 am

  6. Thanks for all the positive feedback, everyone!

    Serpent: perhaps rather than bingo, the list could also make a good drinking game for the conference?

    Comment by Furry Girl — February 28, 2010 @ 12:58 am

  7. Excellent. Definitely going to share this. :-)

    Comment by TsaphanBabe — February 28, 2010 @ 4:23 pm

  8. Two suggestions:

    1. Third square under "O" is missing the word "to" (... women *to* hate their bodies).

    2. Add a url to the image so you get credit when it is reproduced and plastered all over.

    Comment by Angela J — March 1, 2010 @ 11:40 am

  9. There already is a sex work bingo card! But it's good to see another version too.

    Comment by Nine — March 1, 2010 @ 7:01 pm

  10. Angela: Thanks for the typo alert, I'll go an correct that. Good point about adding a little URL tag- I stuck my name in the title for that reason, but a URL doesn't hurt.

    Thanks, Nine! if anyone else had made a bingo card, it had to of been Ren.

    Comment by Furry Girl — March 1, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

  11. genius!! one of the best posts I've ever read. period.

    Comment by Harold M. Clemens — March 1, 2010 @ 9:26 pm

  12. Love it! I'm sooo tired of the "brainwashed by the patriarchy" crap. And yes, sure, there are people [of all sexes] who are exploited in sex work, but there are people who are exploited by sweatshops, by sexual harassment, by unsafe work conditions, etc. The anti-porn/anti-sex work worriers seem a lot less concerned with that.

    Comment by DominEditrix — March 8, 2010 @ 2:11 pm

  13. This is the fucking greatest! I just linked to it on my blog.

    Comment by Kat — March 9, 2010 @ 1:25 pm

  14. Perfect, FG. Absolutely freakin' PERFECT.

    Permission to borrow and copy to my site??

    Anthony

    Comment by Anthony Kennerson — April 7, 2010 @ 6:31 pm

  15. Yes, anyone's welcome to use it, so long as I'm credited.

    Comment by Furry Girl — April 8, 2010 @ 1:15 am

  16. I like your bingo card better.

    Comment by lovesickrobot — June 9, 2010 @ 5:25 am

  17. I teach a class on gender, and we printed these out and played bingo when we watched documentaries and listened to taped talks on porn/sex work...the first person to plausibly bingo got a candy bar. It took REMARKABLY little time. I mean, we filled up the whole card by the end of class...

    Thanks for making this!

    Comment by Neil Dryden — July 12, 2010 @ 5:20 am

  18. Thanks, Neil! That's cool if something I wrote was used in a class.

    Comment by Furry Girl — July 12, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

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