[adamors]

> whores

Can we at least call them prostitues if sex worker is too PC for HN?

[loup-vaillant]

Funny, I didn't notice the negative connotation here. But maybe that's because of sentences I heard lately:

"Hey, what's the problem with being a fucking whore?" (Street whore¹ in Dexter –forgot which episode.)

"I have a lot of respect for whores." (witness in a radio documentary —quite moving, by the way.)

[1] I swear I mean no disrespect.

[kbenson]

I wonder what they call themselves, and what they would be comfortable with if it wasn't used in a derogatory way.

I can imagine if I a few co-workers worked at a horrible oppressing conglomerate, perhaps Veridian Dynamics, and we referred to ourselves as "drones" to denote our feelings, if management said we were no longer allowed to use this term, it would not be uplifting, it would be yet another instance of management oppression by taking away another form of expression.

This example is, of course, extremely contrived, and I can see positives in removing a term from popular use as it may shift attitudes, but I wonder how that compares with the negatives to the group itself.

[n0mad01]

thou shalt call things as they are, everything else is political correctness bingo

-- gandhi