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Thu 26 Jun 2008

When Nations Sell Their Women

Thursday, Jun 26th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Categories: War; Iran; Women
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“Wars are won by destroying the enemy’s will to fight. A nation is never really beaten until it sells its women.”
- Spengler

The French sold their women to the German occupiers in 1940, and the Germans and Japanese sold their women to the Americans after World War II. The women of the former Soviet Union are still selling themselves in huge numbers. Hundreds of thousands of female Ukrainian “tourists” entered Germany after the then-foreign minister Joschka Fischer loosened visa standards in 1999. That helps explain why Ukraine has the world’s fastest rate of population decline. On a smaller scale, trafficking in Iranian women explains Iran’s predicament.

- Spengler @ Asia Times Online: “Jihadis and whores” (Nov 21, 2006): Link.

Via Rudy Carerra @ Tower of Babel: Link



Mon 5 Jun 2006

Brandy and Then Some

Monday, Jun 5th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Categories: Music; Women
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I’ve been thinking about a compilation mix: songs about women getting by in a world of men without being … used by men.

This started out with “Brandy” by Looking Glass … “Brandy, you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you would be, but my life my love and my lady is the sea ….” Okay, sure, horny sailors, “she serves them whiskey and wine” — but that’s it, she’s not selling herself.

In other words: women who might be hookers but aren’t.

Noted musicologist Patrick L. — a close personal friend of mine — offers these suggestions for the mix:

There’s Donna Summer’s “She Works Hard For the Money” (which they swear isn’t about hookers, but about waitresses. “Bad Girls” was definitely about hookers.)

Then there’s “She’s A Beauty” by The Tubes, about strippers behind glass.

Along the same theme, there’s Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” (penned by Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler, BTW)

Thanks, Pat!

Also comes to mind: Bob Seger’s “Down on Main Street”.