does wage inequality cause people to "vilify sex work and torture sex workers"?
No, of course not. That's not what I'm suggesting.
When I was homeless, men repeatedly offered me money for sex or offered me a place to stay. Meanwhile, I was repeatedly told on HN that my desire to support myself with my writing was ludicrous, that writing dies not pay and I shouldn't expect it to.
And when I say my gender is a barrier to effective networking and a factor in my intractable poverty, I am routinely mocked and dismissed.
I am seriously handicapped, which limits the kind of work I can do. I don't qualify for disability.
I don't need a helluva lot of money. I still can't get what I need. All I get is BS personal attacks, dismissals and contempt.
It's very, very clear in my mind that men are willing to pay me for sex or marry me but far too few people are willing to pay me for other kinds of work and the networking that helps men make money via business is something I'm mostly cut off from.
And it's a tiresome situation because I'm given nothing but crap for trying to solve my problems no matter what I do.
I've been here nearly twelve years. Plenty of men make good money via HN. I don't, though my past front page post had over 15k page views and people thanked me for writing it. But it made not one thing dime.
And if you don't want to support my blog writing, I also do resume work and get too little business that way as well.
> It's very, very clear in my mind that men are willing to pay me for sex or marry me but far too few people are willing to pay me for other kinds of work and the networking that helps men make money via business is something I'm mostly cut off from.
What kind of networking is being recommended? I'd like to know so I can do more of it.
If I knew an effective answer to that, I wouldn't have this complaint.
All I know is multiple people here have comments in their profile "Don't hesitate to get in touch! I'm happy to hear from you!" And those people have proven to be generally unhelpful.
Saying too much more puts me in danger of getting in trouble for breaking the rules. It's perfectly acceptable for 5 million people to watch me starve and say "Not my problem." It's not perfectly acceptable for me to tell my story here, no matter how careful I am and I'm quite clear that being not careful would be more problematic for me and get me no remedy.
No, of course not. That's not what I'm suggesting.
When I was homeless, men repeatedly offered me money for sex or offered me a place to stay. Meanwhile, I was repeatedly told on HN that my desire to support myself with my writing was ludicrous, that writing dies not pay and I shouldn't expect it to.
And when I say my gender is a barrier to effective networking and a factor in my intractable poverty, I am routinely mocked and dismissed.
I am seriously handicapped, which limits the kind of work I can do. I don't qualify for disability.
I don't need a helluva lot of money. I still can't get what I need. All I get is BS personal attacks, dismissals and contempt.
It's very, very clear in my mind that men are willing to pay me for sex or marry me but far too few people are willing to pay me for other kinds of work and the networking that helps men make money via business is something I'm mostly cut off from.
And it's a tiresome situation because I'm given nothing but crap for trying to solve my problems no matter what I do.
I've been here nearly twelve years. Plenty of men make good money via HN. I don't, though my past front page post had over 15k page views and people thanked me for writing it. But it made not one thing dime.
And if you don't want to support my blog writing, I also do resume work and get too little business that way as well.