{"id":7888,"date":"2013-10-16T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2013-10-15T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T18:39:51","slug":"in-search-of-lost-time-oconnors-cyrus-attack-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/10\/16\/in-search-of-lost-time-oconnors-cyrus-attack-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>In Search of Lost Time<\/em>: O\u2019Connor\u2019s Cyrus attack flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Sinead O\u2019Connor is being praised in recent media reports for condemning the poor behaviour of pop star Miley Cyrus in an open letter. Admittedly, Cyrus\u2019 behaviour should be criticized and there are plenty of articles detailing this issue.<\/p>\n<p>But what no one seems to be addressing is the problems with O\u2019Connor\u2019s open letter. Her use of language disparages marginalized women and is a form of victim blaming.<\/p>\n<p>An important part in many feminist discourses is prostitution. Like many social roles, multiple social forces affect the people within the social space of prostitution: choice, addiction, economic barriers, race, ethnicity, as well as the powerful forces of global human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor uses the analogue of pimp and prostitute to suggest that Cyrus has been duped into demeaning herself. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to let the music business make a prostitute of you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Prostitutes are living human beings, and whether or not they have chosen that label or that path in life does not change the fact that they occupy an invisible, vulnerable, and dangerous position in Western society, and that they are often treated with disdain and malevolence.<\/p>\n<p>We can critique people and their behaviours without jeopardizing the identity, chosen or not, of others. It\u2019s contradictory to tell someone to value women while devaluing other women who are disproportionately affected by prostitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Sinead O\u2019Connor is being praised in recent media reports for condemning the poor behaviour of pop star Miley Cyrus in an open letter. Admittedly, Cyrus\u2019 behaviour should be criticized and there are plenty of articles detailing this issue. But what no one seems to be addressing is the problems with O\u2019Connor\u2019s open letter. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-october-16-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}