{"id":1976,"date":"2007-07-17T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/just-trying-to-get-my-head-around-all-this\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T04:26:00","slug":"just-trying-to-get-my-head-around-all-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/just-trying-to-get-my-head-around-all-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Just trying to get my head around all this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a woman is caught receiving money for sex, she is guilty of prostitution and may serve time in jail.  A woman who arranges other women to have sex for money is found guilty of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nola.com\/updates\/2007\/07\/vitter_had_five_calls_with_dc.html#comments\">racketeering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But a man who pays women for sex can <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nola.com\/times-picayune\/2007\/07\/vitter_reemerges_and_again_ask.html\">just apologize<\/a>.    Even more, a man who holds a very public job to uphold and protect the law (from a standpoint very supportive of criminalizing prostitution, incidentally) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nola.com\/updates\/2007\/07\/vitter_unlikely_to_face_crimin.html\">doesn&#8217;t get punished<\/a>.   He gets to look forward to going back to work and chastise media for exposing his children to dirty things.<\/p>\n<p>Yup.  We&#8217;ve got no need for an equal rights amendment for women in the U.S.  Totally unnecessary, &#8217;cause we&#8217;ve totally got this equality thing <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">down<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a woman is caught receiving money for sex, she is guilty of prostitution and may serve time in jail. A woman who arranges other women to have sex for money is found guilty of racketeering. But a man who pays women for sex can just apologize. Even more, a man who holds a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}